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THE 



SCHOOL LAW OF ILLINOIS 



AS AMENDED BY THE 



Forty-Seventh General Assembly 



ISSUED BY 

FRANCIS G. BLAIR 

Superintendent of Public Instruction 



SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS: 

Illinois Statk Journal Co., Statb Printers 

1912 



THE 



SCHOOL LAW OF ILLINOIS 



AS AMENDED BY THE 



Forty-Seventh General Assembly 



ISSUED BY 

FRANCIS G. BLAIR 

Superintendent of Public Instruction 



SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS: 

Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers 

1912 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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General school law ,- 5 

SUPPLEMENTAL ACTS. 

Abrogation of special charters 81 

Bonds of certain districts 83 

Boards of education appointed 80 

Boards of education elected in certain cases. - 84 

Boards of education elected in certain districts 85 

Existing indebtedness 82 

ADDITIONAL ACTS. 

Annexation of territory 88 

Child labor 90 

Deaf- and dumb and blind children 96 

Delinquent children 98 

Elections in certain districts " 

Elections—judges and clerks 10 ° 

Eminent domain *C1 

Employes' pension fund 101 

Fees and salaries 106 

High school districts - 106 

Humane instruction .- 108 

Juvenile courts 109 

Pension fund 121 

Public drinking cup - 121 

Revenue 122 



AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SYSTEM OF 

FEEE SCHOOLS. 



SUPERINTENDENT OE PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That on Tuesday next after the first 
Monday in November, 1910, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall 
be elected by the qualified voters of this State a Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, who shall hold his office for four years from the second 
Monday in January next after his election. 

• § 2. Before entering upon his duties he shall take and subscribe the 
oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and execute a bond in the 
penalty of $25,000.00, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, 
with securities to be approved by the Governor, conditioned upon the 
faithful discharge of his duties. Such bond and oath shall be deposited 
with the Secretary of State. 

§ 3. The duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be : 

First — To have his office at the seat of government, and to keep a 
record of all matters pertaining to the business of his office. 

Second — To file all papers, reports and public documents transmitted 
to him by the school officers of the several counties, for each year sepa- 
rately; and to keep and preserve all other public documents, books and 
papers relative to schools, coming into his hands as Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. 

Third — To supervise all the common and public schools in the State. 

Fourth — To counsel and confer,, in such manner as he may deem 
best, with experienced and practical teachers as to the best manner of 
conducting common schools. 

Fifth — To advise and assist county superintendents of schools, address- 
ing to them, from time to time, circular letters relating to the best 
manner of conducting schools, constructing school houses, furnishing 
the same, and examining and procuring competent teachers. 

Sixth — To be ex officio a member of the board of trustees of the 
Southern Normal University. 

Seventh — To make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to 
carry into efficient and uniform effect the provisions of this Act, and of 
all laws for establishing and maintaining free schools in the State. 

Eighth — To be the legal adviser of school officers, and, when requested 
by any school officer, to give his opinion in writing upon any question 
arising under the school laws of the State. 



Ninth — To hear and determine all controversies arising under the 
school laws of the State, coming to him by appeal from a county superin- 
tendent of schools. 

Tenth — To grant certificates to such teachers as may be found qualified 
to receive them, and to suspend the operation of any State certificate for 
immorality or other unprofessional conduct. 

Eleventh — To visit such of the charitable institutions of the State as 
are educational in their character, to examine their facilities for instruc- 
tion, and to prescribe forms for such reports as he may desire from their 
superintendents. 

Twelfth — To report to the Governor, on or before the 1st of November, 
preceding each regular session of the General Assembly, the condition 
of the schools in the several counties of the State; the number of schools 
which have been taught in each county in each of the preceding years, 
commencing on the 1st of July; the number taught by men and women 
respectively ; the number of pupils in attendance ; the number of persons 
in each county under 21 }^ears of age, and the number of persons between 
the ages of 12 and 21 years unable to read and write; the amount of 
township funds; the amount of interest on the State or common school 
fund, and on the township fund, annually paid out; the amount raised 
by an ad valorem tax; the amount annually expended for schools; the 
number of school houses, their kind and condition ; the number of 
townships and parts of townships in each county; the number of books 
purchased for the use of schools and the cosl of the same; the value of 
apparatus purchased ; the number of district libraries ; together with 
such other information and suggestions as he may deem important in 
relation to the schools and school Laws, and the means of promoting 
education throughout the State; which report shall be submitted to the 
General Assembly at each regular session. 

§ 4. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have the follow- 
ing powers : 

First — To designate the particular statistics relating to public schools 
which school officers are required to report to the county superintendent 
of schools. 

Second — To authorize the county superintendent of schools to procure 
such assistance as may be necessary to conduct teachers' institutes. 

Third — To require the county superintendents of schools to furnish 
him with such information as he may desire to include in his report to 
the General Assembly. 

Fourth — To require the trustees of schools ' of each township to 
make, at any time, a report similar to that required of trustees of 
schools, on or before the 15th day of July preceding each regular session 
of the General Assembly. 

Fifth — To require annual reports from the authorities of townships, 
cities or districts maintaining schools by authority of special charters. 

Sixth — To remit, upon the recommendation of the county superin- 
tendent of schools, or for other good and sufficient reasons, the forfeiture 
of the school fund by any township which may have failed to make the 
reports required by law. 



Seventh — To require the Auditor of Public Accounts to withhold from 
the county superintendent the amount due his county from the State 
school fund, or the said county superintendent for his compensation, 
until the report provided for in section 7 of this Act shall liave been 
furnished as therein required. 

Eighth — To request the president, principal or other proper officer of 
every organized university, college, seminary, academy or other educa- 
tional institution, whether incorporated or unincorporated, to submit 
such report as he may require, in order to lay before the General Assembly 
a full exhibit of the affairs and conditions of such institutions and of 
the educational resources of the State. 

Ninth — To require the county superintendent of schools, trustees, 
township treasurer, directors or other school officer to withhold from 
any township, district, officer or teacher any part of the common school 
township or other school fund, until such treasurer, officer or teacher 
shall have made all schedules, reports and returns required of him by 
this Act, and until such officer shall have executed and filed all official 
bonds and accounted for all common school, township or other school 
funds which have come into his hands. 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 

§ 5. On Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1910, 
and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters 
of every county in this State a county superintendent of schools, who 
shall enter upon the discharge of his duties on the first Monday of 
December after his election. 

§ 6. Before entering upon his duties he shall take and subscribe the 
oath prescribed by the Constitution, and execute a bond payable to the 
People of the State of Illinois, with two or more responsible freeholders 
as security, to be approved by the county board or by the judge and 
clerk of the county court, in a penalty of not less than $12,000.00, condi- 
tioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The bond shall be in 
the following form, to-wit: 
State of Illinois, ] 

J-ss. 
County. J 

Know All Men oy These Presents: That we, A B, C D, and E P, are held 
and firmly bound, jointly and severally, unto the people of the State of Illi- 
nois, in the penal sum of dollars, to the payment of which we 

bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these 
presents. 

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 

day of , 1 

The condition of this obligation is such that if A B, county superintendent 
of schools of the county aforesaid, shall faithfully discharge all the duties 
of his office, according to law, and shall deliver to his successor in office 
all moneys, books, papers and property in his hands as such county superin- 
tendent of schools, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in 
full force and virtue. 

A B [Seal] 

C D [Seal] 

E P [Seal] 



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This bond shall be filed in the office of the county clerk, and action or 
actions upon it may be maintained by any corporate body interested, for 
the benefit of any township or fund injured by any breach of its 
conditions. 

§ 7. On or before the 15th of August, annually, the county super- 
intendent of schools shall present to the Superintendent of Public 
Instruction such information relating to schools in his county as the 
Superintendent of Public Instruction may require. 

§ 8. The county superintendent shall present under oath, or affirma- 
tion, to the county board, at its annual meeting in September, and as 
near quarterly thereafter as such board may have regular or special 
meetings, a report of all his acts as county superintendent, including a 
list of all the schools visited, with the dates of visitation. 

§ 9. The county superintendent shall report, in writing, to the 
county board, at its regular meeting in September oi each year, stating, 
first, the balance on hand at the time of the last report, and all receipts 
since that date, with the sources from which they were derived; second, 
the amount distributed to each of the township treasurers in his county; 
third, any balance on hand. At the same time he shall present for 
inspection his books and vouchers for all expenditures, and submit in 
writing a statement of the condition of the institute fund and of any 
other funds in his care, custody or control. 

§ 10. The county superintendent shall keep three books, to be known 
and designated by the letters A, B, and C, for the following purposes: 
In book A he shall record at length all petitions presented to him for 
the sale of common school lands, the plats and certificates of valuation 
made by or under the direction of the trustees of schools, and the affi- 
davits in relation to the same. In book B he shall keep an account of all 
sales of common school lands, including the date of sale, name of 
purchaser, description of land sold and the selling price. In book C 
he shall keep a regular account of all moneys received or paid out; from 
whom received, on what account, showing whether it is principal or 
interest, the rate of interest, and a description of the real estate taken 
as security; if paid out, to whom, when, and on what account, and the 
amount of the list of sales and the account of each township fund to 
be kept separate. 

§ 11. At the regular meeting of the county board, in each year, the 
county superintendent shall present, first, a statement showing the sales 
of school lands made subsequent to the first regular term of the previous 
year, which shall be a true copy of the sale book (book B) ; second, a 
statement of the amount of money received, paid, and in hand, belonging 
to each township or fund under his control, the statement of each fund 
to be separate; third, a statement copied from his loan book (book C), 
showing all the facts in regard to loans which are required to be stated 
in the loan book. 

§ 12. In all cases in which the trustees of schools of any township 
shall fail to prepare and forward, or cause to be prepared and forwarded, 
to the county superintendent the information required of them by this 



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Act, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent to employ a com- 
petent person to take the enumeration and furnish such information, as 
far as practicable. The person so employed shall have access to the 
books and papers of the township to enable him to make such statement ; 
and the township treasurer, or other officer or person in whose custody 
such books and papers may be, shall permit such person to examine such 
books and papers at such times and at such places as such person may 
desire for the purposes aforesaid. For such services the county superin- 
tendent shall pay to the person so employed by him such amount as he 
may judge reasonable, out of any money which is or may come into 
his hands, apportioned as the share of or belonging to such township; 
and the county superintendent shall proceed to recover and collect the 
amount so allowed or paid in a civil action before any justice of 
the peace in the county, or before any court having jurisdiction, in the 
name of the People of the State of Illinois, of and against the trustees 
of schools of the township in their individual capacity; and in such suit 
or suits the county superintendent and the township treasurer shall 
be competent witnesses. The money so received, when collected, shall be 
paid to the county superintendent for the benefit of the township, to 
replace the money taken as aforesaid. 

§ 13. Whenever the bond of any township treasurer, approved by the 
trustees of schools, as required by law, shall be delivered to the county 
superintendent of schools, he shall carefully examine the same, and if 
the instrument is found to be in all respects according to law, and the 
securities good and sufficient, he shall endorse his approval thereon, have 
it recorded in the recorder's office, and file the same with the papers 
of his office ; but if the bond is in any respect defective, or if the penalty 
is insufficient, he shall return it for correction. When the bond shall 
have been received and filed, the superintendent shall, on demand, deliver 
to the township treasurer a written statement certifying that his bond 
has been approved and filed, and that the township treasurer is entitled 
to the care and custody, on demand, of all moneys, bonds, mortgages, 
notes and securities, and all books, papers and property of every descrip- 
tion belonging to the township. 

§ 14. Upon receipt of the amount due the county from the State 
school fund, the county superintendent shall apportion the same, together 
with other funds held for distribution, to the townships and parts of 
townships in his county in which schools have been maintained, as pro- 
vided by law, according to the number of persons under 21 years of age 
returned to him, and shall pay the distributive share belonging to each 
township and fractional township to the respective township treasurers, 
or other authorized persons, annually : Provided, however, that no part 
of the State or other school fund shall be paid to any township treasurer, 
or other person authorized to receive it, unless such treasurer shall have 
filed his bond, or, if reelected, shall have renewed his bond and filed the 
same as required by law. 

§ 15. It shall further be the duty of each county superintendent of 
schools : 



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First — To execute, upon notice by the county bo*ard, a new bond, con- 
ditioned and approved as the first bond. 

.Second — To sell township fund lands, issue certificates of purchase, 
report to the county board and Auditor of Public Accounts, and perform 
all other duties pertaining thereto. 

Third — To register the names of all applicants for normal school and 
university scholarships; to hold, or cause to be held, examinations for 
the same, and to perform such other duties as pertain thereto. 

Fourth — To visit each public school in the county at least once a year, 
noting the methods of instruction, the branches taught, the text books 
used, and the discipline, government and general condition of the 
schools; in the performance of which duty he shall spend at least half 
his time, and more, if practicable, in visiting ungraded schools. 

Fifth — To give teachers and school officers such directions in the 
science, art and methods of teaching, and in regard to courses of study, 
as he may deem expedient. 

Sixth — To act as the official adviser and constant assistant of the 
school officers and teachers of his county. In the performance of this 
duty he shall faithfully carry out the advice of the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. 

Seventh — To conduct a teachers' institute, to aid and encourage the 
formation of other teachers' meetings, and to assist in their management. 

Eighth — To labor in every practicable May to elevate the standard of 
teaching, and improve the condition of the common schools of his 
county. 

Ninth — To examine at least once each year all books, accounts and 
vouchers of every township treasurer in his county, and, if he finds any 
irregularities in them, to report the same at once, in writing, to the 
trustees, whose duty it shall be to take immediately such action as the 
case demands. 

Tenth — To examine all notes, bonds, mortgages, and other evidences 
of indebtedness which the township treasurer holds officially, and if he 
finds that the papers are not in proper form, or that the securities are 
insufficient, he shall so state, in writing, to the board of trustees. 

Eleventh — To give notice of the election of trustees in such cases as 
are specified in section 24 of this Act. 

Twelfth — To give notice of any regular or special election as required 
by section 107 of this Act. 

Thirteenth — To investigate and determine all matters pertaining to 
changes in the boundaries of school districts which may come to him 
by appeal from the decision of the trustees of schools, and to inform 
the township treasurer from whom the papers relating to the matter were 
received of his decision. ' 

Fourteenth- — To file and keep all the poll books and returns of elections 
required to be returned to him and the reports and statements returned 
by township treasurers and trustees of schools. 

Fifteenth — To hold meetings, at least quarterly, for the examination 
of teachers. 



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Sixteenth — To grant certificates of qualification to teach to such per- 
sons as may be' qualified to receive them, and to keep a record of all 
teachers to whom certificates have been granted, and of all teachers 
employed in his county. 

Seventeenth — To notify the presidents of boards of trustees and the 
clerks of school districts, on or before September 30, annually, of the 
amount of money distributed by him to the township treasurer, with 
the date of distribution. 

Eighteenth — To keep in his office a map of his county on a scale of 
not less than two inches to the mile, and to indicate thereon the boundary 
lines and numbers of all school districts. Districts shall be numbered 
consecutively. In case of the formation of a new district composed of 
parts of two or more counties, the county superintendents of such counties 
shall agree upon a number by which such district shall be designated, 
which number shall not be a duplicate of any number in either of such 
counties. 

Nineteenth — To furnish the township treasurers a list of the districts 
in their respective townships with the consecutive numbers of the same. 

§ 16. The county superintendent shall have power : 

First — To require the trustees of each township in his county to 
make, at any time he may desire, the report provided for in section 36 
of this Act. 

Second — To recommend to the Superintendent of Public Instruction 
the remission of the penalty provided for a failure of the trustees of 
schools to make the report required by law. 

Third — To renew teachers' certificates at their expiration by his 
endorsement thereon. 

Fourth — To revoke the certificate of any teacher for immorality, 
incompetency or other just cause. 

Fifth — To direct in what manner township treasurers shall keep their 
books and accounts. 

Sixth — To bring suit against the county collector for failure to pay 
the amount due upon the Auditor's warrant. 

Seventh — To remove any school director from office for willful failure 
to perform his official duties. 

Eighth — To employ, with the approval of the county board, such 
assistant or assistants as he needs for the full discharge of his duties. 
Such assistants shall be persons of good attainment, versed in the prin- 
ciples and methods of education, familiar with public school work, and 
competent to visit schools. 

Ninth — To demand of the trustees of schools certified copies of maps 
and records of school districts as organized. In case of discrepancies 
or defects in defining the boundaries of school districts the county 
superintendent, or, in case of a district lying in two or more counties, 
the county superintendents of such counties acting jointly, shall be 
authorized to define such boundaries in conformity with what may appear 
to have been the intention of the trustees of schools when such boundaries 
were established. 



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§ 17. In all controversies arising under the school law, the opinion 
and advice of the county superintendent shall first be sought, whence 
appeal may be taken upon a written statement of facts certified by the 
county superintendent to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

§ 18. The county superintendent, upon his removal or resignation, 
or at the expiration of his term of office, or in case of his death hi^ 
representatives, shall deliver to his successor in office, on demand, all 
moneys, books, papers and personal property belonging to the office or 
subject to the control or disposition of the county superintendent. 

TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS. 

§ 19. Each Congressional township is hereby established a township 
for school purposes. When a fractional Congressional township contains 
fewer than two hundred persons under 21 years of age, the trustees of 
schools, upon petition of a majority of the adult inhabitants of such 
fractional township, may, by written agreement with the trustees of any 
adjacent township, consolidate the territory, school funds and other 
property of such fractional township with such adjacent township. Such 
territory, school funds and other property shall thereafter be managed 
by the trustees of such adjacent and consolidated township in accordance 
with the terms of such agreement, in the manner provided by law. The 
agreement shall be signed by a majority of the trustees of each township, 
and filed for record in the office of the county clerk of the county 
in which such consolidated township, or the greater part thereof, is 
situated. 

§ 20. The school business of the township shall be transacted by 
three trustees, to be elected by the qualified voters of the township, as 
hereinafter provided. Such trustees shall be a body politic and corpo- 
rate, by the name of "trustees of schools of township ISTo , 

range No " according to the number. Such corporation shall 

have perpetual existence, with power to sue and be sued, and to plead 
and be impleaded, in all courts and places where judicial proceedings 
are had. 

§ 21. No person shall be eligible to the office of trustee of schools 
who is not a resident of the township, and at least 21 years of age. In 
case there are three or more school districts in a township, no two 
trustees shall reside, when elected, in the same school district, nor shall 
a person be eligible to the office of trustee of schools and school director 
at the same time. 

§ 22. The election of trustees of schools shall be held, in townships 
whose boundaries do not coincide with those of towns, on the second 
Saturday of April, annually. In townships whose boundaries do coincide 
with those of towns as established under the township organization 
laws, the trustee or trustees shall be .elected at the same time and in the 
same manner as town officers. In townships in which no election for 
school trustees has heretofore been held, or in townships in which from 



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any cause there are no trustees of schools, or in case of a vacancy or 
'vacancies, the election of trustee or trustees of schools may be held on 
any Saturday. 

§ 23. Notice of the election of trustees shall be given by the township 
treasurer, upon the order of the trustees of schools, or, in case of a first 
election, by the county clerk, by posting notices, at least ten days previous 
to the time of such election, in not less than five of the most public 
places in the township, which notices shall specify the time, place and 
object of the election, and may be in the following form, to-wit : 

NOTICE OF ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 1 , 

an election will be held at for the purpose of electing 

school trustee . . for township No Range No 

The polls will be opened at o'clock, m., and closed at 

o'clock, m. 

By order of the trustees of schools. 



Township Treasurer. 

§ 24. If the township treasurer shall fail or refuse to give notice of 
the regular election of trustees, as required by the foregoing section, and 
if, in case of a vacancy, the remaining trustee or trustees shall fail or 
refuse to order an election to fill such vacancy, it shall be the duty of 
the county superintendent to order such election. 

§ 25. If, upon the day appointed for the election of trustees of 
schools, the trustee or judges shall be of the opinion that, on account 
of the small attendance of voters, the public good requires it, or if a 
majority of the voters present shall desire it, they shall postpone the 
election until the next Saturday, at the same place and hour, at which 
time and meeting the voters shall proceed as if it were not a postponed 
or adjourned meeting : Provided, however, that if notice shall not have 
been given of such election, as required by section 23 of this Act, the 
election may be ordered and held on any Saturday, notice thereof being 
given. 

§ 26. The time and manner of opening, conducting and closing the 
election, and the several liabilities appertaining to the judges, clerks 
and voters, separately and collectively, and the manner of contesting 
the election, shall be the same as prescribed by the general election laws 
of this State defining the manner of electing magistrates and constables, 
so far as applicable, subject to the provisions of this Act. 

§ 27. The trustees of schools shall act as judges and choose a clerk 
of the election. If the trustees, or any of them, shall fail to attend, or 
refuse to act when present, or if, from any cause, there are no trustees 
of schools, or not a sufficient number to act as judges, the qualified 
voters present shall choose from among themselves the number of judges 
required to open and conduct the election. 

§ 28. In townships in which for general elections there are more 
than two polling places, the trustees shall give notice that polls will be 



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opened for such elections in at least two places; in which case at least 
one of the trustees shall be assigned to each place, so far as practicable, 
and additional judges shall be chosen by the qualified voters present: 
Provided, however, that there shall be at least one polling place for each 
800 voters in the township. 

§ 29. The judges shall return the ballots and original poll books, with 
a certificate thereon showing the result of election in such precinct, to 
the treasurer of the township in which the election shall be held, where- 
upon it shall be the duty of the trustees of schools, within five days 
after the election, to meet and canvass the returns from each precinct, to 
make out a certificate showing the number of votes cast for each person 
in each precinct and in the whole township, and to file the certificate 
with the county superintendent of schools. 

§ 30. Upon the election of trustees of schools, the judges of the 
election shall, within ten days thereafter, cause a copy of the poll book 
of the election to be delivered to the county superintendent of schools, 
with a certificate thereon showing the election of trustees and the names 
of the persons elected; which copy, with the certificate, shall be filed by 
the county superintendent and shall be evidence of such election. 

§ 31. At the first election of trustees in a newly organized township, 
the trustees shall, at their first meeting, cast lots for their respective 
terms of office for one, two and three years; and thereafter one trustee 
shall be elected annually, at the usual time for electing a trustee of 
schools, to fill the vacancy occurring. In case of a tie vote, the election 
shall be determined by lot, on the day of the election, by the judges. 

§ 32. At the first regular election of trustees after the passage of 
this Act, a successor to the trustee whose term of office then expires 
shall be elected, and thereafter one trustee shall be elected annually. 
Such trustees shall continue in office three years. 

§ 33. Within ten days after the annual election, the trustees of 
schools shall organize by appointing one of their number president, who 
shall hold his office forgone year. It shall be the duty of the president 
to preside at all meetings of the board and to sign the proceedings thereof 
when recorded. If the president be absent from any meeting, or refuse 
to perform any of the duties of his office, a president pro tempore may 
be appointed. The president may be removed by the trustees of schools 
for good and sufficient cause. 

§ 34. It shall be the duty of the trustees of schools to hold regular 
semi-annual meetings on the first Mondays of April and October. 
Special meetings may be called at any time by the president or by two 
members. Two members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
of business. 

§ 35. At the regular semi-annual meetings on the first Mondays of 
April and October, the trustees shall ascertain the amount of funds 
subject to distribution, and shall appropriate and distribute the same as 
required by this section, and not otherwise. All vali-d claims shall be 
paid before distribiirion, in manner following: First, the compensation 
of the treasurer; second, the cost of publishing the annual statement; 



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third, the cost of a record book, if any; fourth, the cost of dividing 
school lands and making plats. The balance shall be apportioned and 
distributed to the districts and parts of districts in the township in 
which schools have been kept as required by law during the preceding 
year ending June 30th, according to the number of persons returned 
under 21 years of age. The funds so distributed shall be credited to the 
respective districts and parts of districts. 

§ 36. The trustees of schools of each township in this State shall 
prepare, or cause to be prepared, by the township treasurer, the directors 
of the several districts, or other person, and forward to the county super- 
intendent of the county in which the township lies, on or before the 
15th day of July, annually, and at such other times as may be required 
by the county superintendent of schools, or by the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, a statement exhibiting the condition of the schools 
in their respective townships for the preceding year, commencing on 
July 1st and ending June 30th, which statement shall be in the form 
and shall contain the information required by. the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. Any township from which such report is not received 
in the manner and time required by law, shall forfeit its portion of the 
distributive fund for the next ensuing year. 

§ 37. In case a township is divided by a county line or lines, the 
trustees of schools of such township shall make, or cause to be made, 
separate enumerations of all statistics and other information required 
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and report the same sepa- 
rately to the several county' superintendents; and all parts of such 
statistical information which cannot practically be reported separately 
shall be reported to the county superintendent of the county in which 
the sixteenth section of such township is situated. 

§ 38. At each semi-annual meeting, and at such other meetings as 
they may think proper, the trustees of schools shall examine all books, 
notes, mortgages, securities, papers, moneys and effects of the corpora- 
tion, and the accounts and vouchers of the township treasurer, or other 
township school officer, and shall make such order for their security, 
preservation, collection, correction of errors, if any, and for their proper 
dispositions, as may be necessary. 

§ 39. The trustees of schools may receive any gift, grant, donation 
or devise made for the use of any school or library, or for any other 
school purpose, within their jurisdiction. They shall be and are hereby 
invested in their corporate capacity with the title of all school buildings 
and school sites. All conveyances of real estate made to the trustees of 
schools shall be made to them in their corporate name, and to their 
successors in office. 

§ 40. When a school site or building has become unnecessary or 
unsuitable or inconvenient for a school, the trustees of schools, on petition 
of a majority of the voters of the district, shall sell and convey the 
same, after giving at least twenty days' notice of such sale, by posting 
written or printed notices thereof describing the property and the terms 
of sale, which may be in the following form, to-wit: 



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NOTICE OF SALE. 

Notice is hereby given that on the day of , 1 , 

the trustees of schools of township No , Range No , will sell 

at public sale, on the premises hereinafter described, between 10:00 o'clock, 
a. m., and 3:00 o'clock, p. m., the school house situated on the school house 
site known as (here describe the site by its number, commonly known 
name, or other definite description) and located in the (here describe its 
place in the section), which sale will be made on the following terms, to-wit: 
(Here insert as "one-third of the purchase money cash in hand, and the 
balance in two equal payments, due in one and two years from day of sale, 

with interest at the rate of per cent per annum from date.") 

A B [Seal] 

C D [Seal] 

E F [Seal] 

Trustees. 

The deed of conveyance shall be executed by the president and clerk, 
and the proceeds paid to the township treasurer for the benefit of the 
district. 

§ 41. The trustees of schools shall cause all moneys for the use of 
the township and the districts to be paid to the township treasurer. 

§ 42. The trustees of schools shall have power to purchase real 
estate in satisfaction of any judgment or decree in any action wherein 
the trustees or the county superintendent of schools are parties, if, in 
their opinion, the interests of the township fund will be promoted thereby. 

§ 43. The trustees of schools shall have power to make all settle- 
ments with persons indebted to them in their official capacity ; to receive 
deeds to real estate in compromise; and -to cancel notes, bonds, mort- 
gages, judgments and decrees for the benefit of the township; and their 
action in the premises shall be valid and binding. 

§ 44. The trustees of schools shall have power to lease or sell any 
lands that may come into their possession in the manner described in 
either of the two preceding sections. The sale shall be made in the 
manner provided for the sale of the sixteenth section. 

§ 45. The trustees of schools in newly organized townships shall 
divide the township into school districts to suit the wishes or convenience 
of a majority of the inhabitants of the township, and shall prepare or 
cause to be prepared a map of the township, on which the district or 
districts shall be designated by their respective numbers. The said trus- 
tees of schools shall also cause any territory taken from a school district 
acting under a special charter to be formed and established into a school 
district to be governed under the general school laws of the State and 
shall cause such district to be established within thirty days. from the 
time such territory is taken from such district acting under a special 
charter ; and said trustees shall call an election for the purpose of electing 
directors for such district within ten days after the organization of such 
district. In case such territory has not sufficient inhabitants and children 
to establish and maintain a school, the trustees shall have power to annex 
such territory to an adjoining district or districts. (As amended by an 
Act approved June 5, 1911.) 



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§ 46. When such division into districts has been made, the trustees 
of schools may, in their discretion, at the regular meeting in April, 
change the boundaries of districts situated wholly within the township, 
so as: 

First — To divide a district into two or more districts, when petitioned 
by a majority of the legal voters of the district. 

Second-^To consolidate two or more districts into one district, when 
petitioned by a majority of the legal voters of each district. 

Third — To detach territory from one district and acid the same to an 
adjacent district, when petitioned by a majority of the legal voters of 
each district; or, when petitioned by two-thirds of the legal voters 
residing within the territory described in the petition, asking that 
such territory be detached from one district and added to an adjacent 
district. 

Fourth — To create a new district from territory belonging to two or 
more districts, when petitioned by a majority of the legal voters of each 
district; or, when petitioned by two-thirds of the legal voters residing 
within the territory described in the petition, containing not fewer than 
ten families, asking that such territory be created into a new district. 

Fifth — To create a new district by dividing the territory of an exist- 
ing district, when petitioned by two-thirds of the legal voters residing 
within the territory described in the petition, containing not fewer than 
ten families, asking that such territory be created into a new district. 

§ 47. Changes in the boundaries of districts which lie in separate 
townships, and of districts formed of parts of two or more townships, 
may be made at the regular meeting of trustees in April, by the con- 
current action of the several boards of trustees in which the district or 
districts lie, each board being petitioned, as provided in the preceding 
section of this Act. 

§ 48. In school districts, whether operating under this Act or under 
a special charter, the request for a change of boundary may be submitted 
to the trustees by vote of the people, instead of by petition. The school 
directors, when petitioned so to do by twenty-five legal voters of the 
district, shall submit the question of the change desired to the voters 
of the district, at a special election called for that purpose, and held at 
least thirty days prior to the 'regular April meeting of trustees. If a 
majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of the change 
proposed, then, due return of the election having been made to the 
township treasurer, the trustees of schools shall consider and take action 
the same as if petitioned therefor by a majority of the legal voters of 
such district. Such question shall not be so submitted more than once 
in any year. 

§ 49. A majority of the legal voters of a district lying in two or 
more townships may secure the dissolution of the district by petitioning 
the trustees of schools of the several townships, at their regular meeting 
in April, to add the territory belonging to the district in their township 
to one or more adjacent districts. Upon receipt of such petition, or the 
returns of the election, in districts containing one thousand or more 

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inhabitants, the trustees of schools of the several townships shall make 
such disposition of the territory of the district that lies in their township, 
and they shall jointly make such division of the property of the district 
between or among the districts- to which its territory is attached, as 
provided in the case of the organization of a new district from a part 
of another district. 

§ 50. If any school district shall, for two consecutive years, fail to 
maintain a public school as required by law, it shall be the duty of the 
trustees of schools of the township, or townships, in which such district 
lies, to attach the territory of such district to one or more adjoining 
districts; and, in case the territory is added to two or more district's, to 
divide the property of the district among the districts to which its terri- 
tory is added, in the manner provided for the division of property in 
case of the organization of a new district from a part of another district. 

§ 51. Any city, township or district in which schools are now man- 
aged under any special Act, may, by vote of its electors, cease to control 
its schools under such special Act, and becomes part of the school 
township, or townships, in which it is situated. Upon petition of fifty 
voters of such city, township or district, presented to the board having 
the control and management of the public schools, it shall be the duty 
of such board to cause to be submitted to the voters at the next ensuing 
election to be held in such city, township or district, the question of 
"organizing under the general school law." Notice shall be given by 
posting notices in the five most public places in such city, township 
or district, at least fifteen days before the date of holding such election, 
which notices shall be in the following form, to-wit : 

NOTICE OF ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given, that on the day of , 1 , 

an election will be held at , for the purpose of deciding the 

question of organizing under the general school law. The polls will be 

opened at o'clock, ...ra., and closed at o'clock, ...m. 

(Signed) 

If it shall appear, upon a canvass of the returns, that a majority of the 
votes cast at such election are in favor of organizing under the general 
school law, then the board having the control and management of schools 
in such city, township or district shall give notice of an election to be 
held on any Saturday thereafter, according to the provisions of this 
Act, for the purpose of electing a board of directors or board of education, 
as the case may require ; but all subsequent elections shall be held on the 
third Saturday of April annually. 

§ 52. No petition shall be acted upon by the trustees of schools 
unless such petition shall have been filed with the clerk at least twenty 
days before the regular meeting in April, nor unless a copy of the 
petition, with a notice in writing, signed by one or more of the peti- 
• tioners, shall be delivered by the petitioners, or one of them, at least ten 
days before the clay on which the petition is to be considered, to the 
president or clerk of the school directors of each district whose boundaries 
will be changed if the petition is granted. Such notice may be in the 
following form, to-wit: 



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NOTICE OF PETITION. 



The directors in district No , in county, will 

take notice that the undersigned and others have made and filed with the 
trustees of schools their petition, a copy of which is herewith handed to you. 

(Signed). 

§ 53. When a petition shall come before the trustees of schools 
asking for a change in the boundaries of districts, it shall be the duty 
of the trustees to ascertain whether the foregoing provisions have been 
strictly complied with. If it shall appear that they, or either of them, 
have not been complied with, the board shall adjourn, for not longer 
than four weeks, in order that the foregoing provisions may be complied 
with. There shall be but one adjournment for such purpose. 

§ 54. If it shall appear on the day of the regular meeting, or, in 
case of adjournment, at the adjourned meeting, that such provisions have 
been complied with, the trustees shall consider the petition, hear any 
legal voters of the district or districts affected by the proposed change 
who may appear to oppose the petition, and shall grant or refuse the 
prayer of the petitioners without unreasonable delay. After the trus- 
tees of schools have considered the petition, no objection' shall be raised 
as to its form, and their action shall be prima facie evidence that all 
requirements have been complied with. 

§ 55. The petitioners, or the legal voters who appear to oppose the 
change of boundaries, shall have the right of appeal to the county super- 
intendent of schools. The appellant shall file with the clerk of the 
trustees a written notice of appeal within ten days after final action by 
the trustees, which notice may be in the following form, to-wit: 

NOTICE OF APPEAL. 

To the trustees of schools of township No. ........ Range No , of 

county, Illinois : 

You are hereby notified that the undersigned will appeal from your de- 
cision made on the day of , 1. . . . ., granting 

(or refusing) the prayer of the petition in regard to (here give substance 
of the petition concerned) to the county superintendent of schools of 

county, Illinois, as provided by law. 

(Signed) 

§ 56. When an appeal is so taken the clerk shall transmit, within 
five days after the notice of appeal has been filed, all papers in the case, 
with a transcript of the records of the trustees showing their action 
thereon, to the county superintendent of schools. The clerk shall take 
no further action in the matter, except upon the order of the county 
superintendent, who shall investigate the case, make such change or 
changes, or refuse to make them, reversing, if need be, the action of the 
trustees, and give the clerk immediate notice of his decision; and his 
action shall be final and binding. If the changes asked by the petitioners 
be made by the county superintendent, he shall notify, in writing, the 
clerk by whom the papers in the case were transmitted to him, of his 
action, and the clerk shall thereupon make a record of the same, and 
shall, within ten days thereafter, make a copy of the same, and a map 



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of the township showing the districts, and an accurate list of the tax- 
payers of the newly arranged districts, and deliver them to the county 
clerk for filing and record by him, the same as if the changes had been 
ordered by the trustees. 

§ 57. In all cases in which the district affected by a proposed change 
of boundaries is divided by a county line or lines, the appeal may be 
taken to the county superintendent of schools of any one of the counties 
in which the district is partly located; and upon appeal being taken in 
any such case, the county superintendent of schools to whom such 
appeal is taken shall forthwith give notice to the county superintendent 
or superintendents of schools of the other county or counties of the 
pendency of such appeal, and of the time and place when and where it 
shall be heard ; and the county superintendents of schools of the counties 
in which the district is located shall meet at such time and place, and 
together hear and determine the appeal. In case the county superin- 
tendents shall be unable to arrive at an agreement, the county judge 
of the county in which such appeal is pending shall become a member 
of the board of appeal, by which the appeal shall thereupon be heard 
and determined. The county superintendent of schools to whom such 
appeal is taken shall at once notify, in writing, the clerk by whom the 
papers in the case Avere transmitted to him, of the action taken on such 
appeal, as hereinafter provided. 

§ 58. When a change in boundaries is made by the trustees of 
schools, and no appeal is taken, the clerk shall make and file with the 
county clerk for record, within twenty days of the action of the trustees, 
a copy of the record of such action, certified by the president and the 
clerk, together with a map of the township showing the districts, and a 
list of the taxpayers of the newly organized districts. 

§ 59. In case any territory shall be set off from a district that has a 
bonded debt, the change not being petitioned for by a majority of the 
legal voters of the district, such original district shall remain liable for 
the payment of such bonded debt, as if not divided. The directors of the 
original district, and the directors of the district into which the territory 
taken from such original district has been incorporated, shall consti- 
tute a joint board for the purpose of determining and certifying, and 
they shall determine and certify, to the county clerk the amount of tax 
required yearly for the purpose of paying the interest and principal 
of such bonded debt, which tax shall be extended by the county clerk 
against all property embraced within the original district as if it had not 
been divided. 

§ 60. When the trustees of schools shall organize a new district, it 
shall be the duty of the clerk of the trustees of schools, if no appeal 
is taken, to order within fifteen days after the action of the trustees, an 
election, to be held at a convenient time and place within the boundaries 
of such newly organized district, for three school directors, notice being 
given by the township treasurer, who shall post notices of such election 
in at least three prominent places in the district, at least ten days prior 



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to the time appointed for holding such election, which notices shall 
specify the place where such election is to be held, the time for opening 
and closing the polls, and the object of the election, and may be in the 
following form, to-wit: 

NOTICE OF ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on the day of , 1. . ., 

an election will be held at for the purpose of electing 

three school directors for the new district known as district No 

in county, Illinois. The polls will be opened at 

o'clock m., and closed at o'clock, m. 

By order of the trustees of schools. 

(Signed) 

Township Treasurer. 

§ 61. At the time appointed for opening the polls for such election, 
the qualified voters present, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, shall 
appoint two of their number to act as judges and one as clerk. The 
election, in all other respects, shall be conducted as other elections of 
school directors. 

§ 62. Within' ten days after the election the directors shall meet at a 
convenient time and place previously agreed upon by them, and organize 
by appointing one of their number president and another of their number 
clerk. At this meeting of the directors they shall cast lots for their terms 
of office for one, two and three years, respectively. 

§ 63. In case a new district is organized by the action of the county 
superintendent, the clerk of the trustees of schools shall, within five days 
after he has received notice of the action of the county superintendent on 
the appeal, order an election of directors in the new district the same 
as if the change had been made by the trustees, and such election shall be 
held in the same manner as the election provided for when the trustees 
have formed a new district. 

§ 64. When a new district has been formed by the trustees, or by the 
county superintendent or county superintendents, from a part of a dis- 
trict or parts of two or more districts, the trustees of the township or 
townships concerned shall make forthwith a distribution of tax funds, 
or other funds in the hands of the treasurer, or to which the district 
may, at the time of such division, be entitled, so that the old and new 
districts shall receive parts of such funds in proportion to the amount 
of taxes collected next preceding such division from the taxable property 
in the territory composing the several districts. If the new districts 
be composed of parts of two or more districts, the trustees shall make 
distribution of such funds between the new district and the old districts 
respectively, so that the new district shall receive a distribution of the 
funds of each of the old districts in the proportion which the amount 
of taxes collected from the property in the territory of the new district 
bears to the whole taxes collected next before the division in the old 
district; and the township treasurer shall forthwith place the sum so 
distributed to the credit of the respective districts, and shall immediately 



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place the proportion of the funds to which the new district may be 
entitled to its credit on his books, and the funds on hand shall be subject 
at once to the order of the directors of the new district, and those not 
on hand, as soon as collected. 

§ 65. When a new district is created, or within thirty days there- 
after, the trustees of the township or townships concerned shall appoint 
three appraisers, who shall not be residents of the township or townships 
interested. It shall be the duty of such appraisers, within thirty days 
after their appointment, to appraise the school property, real and per- 
sonal, of the district or districts interested, at their fair cash value. 
Within thirty days after such appraisement, the trustees of the township 
or townships concerned shall charge the property to the district in which 
it may be found, and credit the other districts interested with its pro- 
portion of such valuation: Provided, however, that the bona fide debts 
of the old district shall first be deducted and the balance charged and 
credited as aforesaid ; and the trustees shall direct the treasurer to place 
to the credit of the district not retaining such property, its proportion 
of the value thereof, and of the funds then on hand, or subsequently to 
accrue, belonging to the district to which such property is charged. 

§ 66. The trustees of schools, elected as provided by this Act, shall 
be the successors to the trustees of schools elected in townships under 
the provisions of "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free 
schools," approved May 21, 1889. All rights of property, and rights 
and causes of action existing or vested in the trustees of schools elected, 
as aforesaid, for the use of the inhabitants of the township, or any part 
of them, shall vest in the trustees of schools elected under this Act, as 
successors, in as complete a manner as was vested in the trustees of 
schools elected as aforesaid. 

TOWNSHIP TREASURER. 

§ 67. Within ten days after the annual election of trustees of schools 
in 1910, and biennially thereafter, the trustees of schools shall elect a 
treasurer who shall be ex officio clerk of the board, and shall hold his 
office for two years. The treasurer shall be a resident of the township, 
but not a trustee or director. It shall be his duty to attend all meetings 
and keep a record of the official proceedings of the trustees of schools. 
Such record shall be open to the inspection Of any person interested. 
All proceedings, when recorded, shall be signed by the president and the 
clerk. If the clerk shall be absent, or refuse to perform any of the duties 
of his office, a clerk pro tempore may be appointed. For good and suffi- 
cient cause the treasurer may be removed from office by the trustees of 
schools. In case of a vacancy the trustees of schools shall elect a treasurer 
for the unexpired term. 

§ 68. Before entering upon his duties, the township treasurer shall 
execute a bond with two or more freeholders, who shall not be trustees 
as securities, payable to the trustees of schools and conditioned upon 
the faithful discharge of his duties. The penalty of such bond shall be 
at least twice the amount of all bonds, notes, mortgages, moneys and 



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effects of which he is to have the custody, and shall be increased from 
time to time, as the increase of the amount of notes, bonds, mortgages 
and effects may require, and whenever in the judgment of the trustees 
or county superintendent the security is insufficient. Such bond shall 
be approved by at least a majority of the trustees, be delivered by one 
of them to the county superintendent of schools, and shall be in the 
following form, to-wit : 

State of Illinois, 1 

j-ss. 

County. J 

Enoiv All Men ~by These Presents: That we, A B, C D, and E F, are held 
and firmly bound, jointly and severally, unto the board of trustees of town- 
ship , Range , in said county, in the penal sum of 

dollars, for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our 

heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. 

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 

day of ,1 The condition of this obligation is 

such that if A B, treasurer of township , Range , in the 

county, aforesaid, shall faithfully discharge the duties of his office, accord- 
ing to law, and shall deliver to his successor in office, after such successor 
shall have qualified by giving bond as provided by law, all moneys, books, 
papers, securities and property which shall come into his 'hands or con- 
trol, as such township treasurer, from the date of his bond up to the time 
that his successor shall have qualified as township treasurer, by giving 
such bond as shall be required by law, then this obligation to be void; other- 
wise to remain in full force and virtue. 

A B [seal] 

C D [seal] 

E F [seal] 

Approved and accepted by: 

G H 

I J 

K L 

Trustees. 

§ 69. The township treasurer shall receive in full, for his services, 
a compensation to be fixed, prior to his election, by the trustees of 
schools. > 

§ 70. The township treasurer shall be provided by the trustees of 
schools with a cash book, a loan book, a district account book and a 
journal. In the cash book he shall enter in separate accounts all moneys 
received and moneys paid out, with the amount, date, from whom, to 
whom, and on what account received or paid out ; or, if loaned, the date, 
to whom, and the amount. Moneys received shall be charged to debit 
account, and moneys paid out shall be credited as follows : First, to the 
principal of the township fund; second, to the interest of the township 
fund; third, to the common school fund and other funds; fourth, to the 
taxes received from the county or town collector, and for what districts 
received; fifth, donations; sixth, moneys coming from all other sources; 
in all cases entering the date when received, and when paid out. In the 
loan book he shall enter a record of all school funds loaned, with the 
amount, to whom, date, time, when due, and the rate of interest, the 
interest paid, and a description of the securities. In the district account 
book he shall post from the cash book all receipts and expenditures on 
account of any district, with the amount, date, from or to whom, and 



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from what sources and for what purposes.^ In the journal he shall record 
at length the acts and proceedings of the trustees of schools, their orders, 
by-laws and resolutions. The township treasurer shall arrange and keep 
his accounts in such manner as may be directed by the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, the county superintendent of schools or the trustees 
of schools; and they shall be subject at all times to the inspection of 
the trustees, the directors or other persons authorized by this Act, or of 
any committee appointed by the voters of the township at the annual 
election of trustees to examine the same. 

§ 71. The township treasurer shall be the only lawful depositary 
and custodian of all township and district school funds, and shall demand, 
receipt for and safely keep, according to law, all bonds, mortgages, notes, 
moneys, effects, books and papers of every description belonging to his 
township. 

§ 72. The township treasurer shall keep the principal of the township 
fund loaned at interest. The rate of interest, which shall not be less 
than 4 per cent, nor more than 7 per cent, per annum, payable annu- 
ally, shall be determined by a majority of the trustees of schools at 
any regular or special meeting. No loan shall be made for less than 
one year nor more than five years. All loans shall be secured by 
mortgage on unincumbered realty situated in this State, worth at least 
50 per cent more than the amount loaned, with a condition that in 
case additional security shall be required at any time it shall be given, 
to the satisfaction of the trustees of schools. In estimating the value 
of realty mortgaged to secure the payment of money loaned, the value 
of improvements liable to be destroyed may be included; but in such 
case the improvements shall be insured for their insurable value in a 
responsible insurance company or companies, and the policy or policies 
shall be transferred to the trustees of schools as additional security, and 
shall be kept so insured until the loan is paid. Nothing herein shall 
prevent the township treasurer from investing the principal of the 
township fund in bonds issued by the State, the Sanitary District of 
Chicago, counties, townships and cities in this State, and bonds issued 
by school directors pursuant to section 195 of this Act. When school 
funds are held by the treasurer of a district created by any special Act, 
such funds shall be invested according to the provisions of this section. 

§ 73. Mortgages to secure the payment of money loaned under the 
provisions of this Act may be in the following form, to wit : 

I, A B, of the county of , State of , do hereby 

grant, convey and transfer to the trustees of schools of township No. . . ., 

range No. . . ., in the county of , and State of Illinois, for 

the use of the inhabitants of said township, the following described real 
estate, to wit: (Here insert premises), which real estate I declare to 

be in mortgage for the payment of dollars loaned to me 

and for the payment of all interest that may accrue thereon, to be 

computed at the rate of per cent per annum until paid. And 

T do hereby covenant to pay the above sum of money in years 

from the date hereof, and to pay the interest on the same annually, at 
the rate aforesaid. I further covenant that I have a good and valid 



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title to said estate, and that the same is free from all incumbrance, and 
that I will pay all taxes and assessments which may be levied on said 
estate, and that I will give any additional security that may at any time 
be required in writing by the board of trustees; and if said estate be 
sold to pay said debt or any part thereof, or for any failure or refusal 
to comply with or perform the conditions or covenants herein contained, 
I will deliver immediate possession of the premises. And it is further 
agreed by and between the parties, in case a bill is filed in any court to 
foreclose this mortgage for nonpayment of either principal or interest, 
that the mortgagor will pay a reasonable solicitor's fee, and the same 
shall be included in the decree and be taxed as costs ; and we, A B, and 
C, wife of A B, hereby release all right to the said premises which we 
may have by virtue of any homestead laws of this State, and in con- 
sideration of the premises," C, wife of A B, doth hereby release to said 
board all her right and title of dower in the aforegranted premises for 
the purpose aforesaid. 

In testimony whereof, we have hereunder set our hands and seals this 

day of , 1 . . . . 

A B (Seal.) 

C D ...(Seal.) 

Which mortgage shall be acknowledged and recorded as is required by 
law for other conveyances of real estate; the mortgagor paying the 
expenses of acknowledgment and recording. 

§ 74. If default be made in the interest due upon money loaned by 
any township treasurer, or in the payment of the principal, interest 
at the rate of 12 per cent per annum shall be charged upon the principal 
and interest from the day of default, which interest shall be included in 
the -assessment of damages, or in the judgment in the suit or action 
brought upon the obligation to enforce payment thereof, and interest 
at the rate of 12 per cent per annum may be recovered in an action 
brought to recover interest only. The township treasurer is hereby 
empowered to bring appropriate actions in the name of the trustees for 
the recovery of the interest, when due and unpaid, without suing for 
the principal, in whatever form secured. 

§ 75. In all cases in which the trustees of schools shall require addi- 
tional security for the payment of money loaned, and such security shall 
not be given, the township treasurer shall cause suit to be instituted 
for the recovery of the principal and accrued interest to the date of 
judgment. Proof shall be made of such requisition. 

§ 76. Bonds, mortgages, notes and other securities taken for money 
or other property due, or to become due, to the trustees of schools for 
the township, shall be made payable to them in their corporate name; 
and in such name, suits, actions and complaints, and every description 
of legal proceedings may be had for the recovery of money, breach of 
contracts and for every legal liability which may at any time arise or 
exist, or upon which a right of action shall accrue to the use of such 
corporation. 

§ 77. On or before the 30th day of June, annually, the township 
treasurer shall deliver to the county superintendent of schools a state- 
ment, verified by his affidavit, showing the exact condition of the township 



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funds. Such statement shall contain a description of all bonds, mort- 
gages, notes and other securities held as principal of the township 
fund, giving names, dates, amounts, rates of interest, when due, and 
other data necessary to a full understanding of the condition of the 
funds. 

§ 78. On the first Mondays in April and October of each year the 
township treasurer shall submit to the trustees of schools a statement 
showing the amounts of interest, rents, issues and profits on township 
lands and funds, that have accrued since their last regular meeting, 
and also the amount of distributive funds on hand. He shall submit 
also to the trustees for their examination all books, mortgages, bonds, 
notes and other evidences of indebtedness held by him as treasurer of the 
township, and shall make such other statements touching the duties of 
his office as the trustees may require. 

§ 79. The township treasurer shall present to the trustees of schools, 
at their meeting following the annual election, a complete exhibit of the 
fiscal affairs of the township, and of the several districts or parts of 
districts in the township, showing the receipts of money, the sources 
from which they have been derived, the deficit and delinquencies, if 
there be any, and the cause of them, and also a classified statement of 
moneys paid out, and the amount of obligations remaining unpaid. 

§ 80. The township treasurer shall, within two days after the first 
Monday of April, and on July 15, annually, prepare for each district 
or part of district in the township a statement or exhibit of the exact 
condition of the account of such district or part of district, as shown by 
his books on A.pril 1 and June 30 of each year. Such statement or 
exhibit shall show the balance on hand at the time of making the last 
exhibit, the amount since received, when and from what sources; and 
also the amount paid out during that time, to whom paid, and for what 
purpose, and the statement shall be balanced, and the balance shown. It 
shall be the duty of the treasurer to comply with any lawful demand the 
trustees may make as to the verification of any balance reported by the 
treasurer to be on hand. The exhibit shall be subscribed and sworn to 
by the treasurer before any officer authorized to administer an oath, and 
shall be without delay, delivered or transmitted by mail to the clerk of 
the proper district. 

§ 81. The township treasurer shall pay out no funds of any school 
district except upon an order of the board of directors, signed by the 
president and clerk, or by a majority of the board. When an order 
issued for the wages of a teacher is presented to the treasurer and is not 
paid for want of funds, the treasurer shall endorse it over his signature, 
"not paid for want of funds/' with the date of presentation, and shall 
make and keep a record of such endorsement. Such order shall there- 
after draw interest at the legal rate until paid, or until the treasurer 
shall notify the clerk, in writing, -that he has funds to pay such order, 
and the treasurer shall make and keep a record of such notes, and hold 
the funds necessary to pay such order until it is presented. Such order 
shall draw no interest after notice is given to the clerk. 

§ 82. It shall also be the duty of the township treasurer : 



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First — To return to the county clerk, on or before the second Monday 
of August in each year, the certificate of tax levy made by each board of 
school directors in his township. 

Second — To pay all lawful orders issued by the directors of any district 
in his township. 

Third — To collect from the township and county collectors the full 
amount of taxes levied 'by the directors in his township. 

Fourth — To examine the official records of each district in the town- 
ship on the first Mondays in April and October of each year. 

Fifth — To keep a record account between districts when pupils are 
transferred from one district to another. 

Sixth — To give notice of the election of trustees, and in case of the 
formation of a new school district, of the election of school directors. 

Seventh — To give notice of any regular or special district election 
when the directors fail or refuse to do so. 

Eighth — To publish in some newspaper of his county an annual state- 
ment of the finances of the township. 

Ninth — To file all poll books and returns of election delivered to him 
under the provisions of this Act. 

§ 83. When a district is composed of parts of two or more town- 
ships, any treasurer not authorized to receive the taxes of such district 
shall notify the directors of the amount of funds held by him to the 
credit of such district, and the directors shall thereupon give the proper 
treasurer an order for such funds. 

§ 84. The township treasurer, at the expiration of his term of 
office, or upon his removal or resignation, or in case of his death his 
representatives shall deliver to his successor all moneys, books, mort- 
gages, notes and securities, and all papers and documents of every de- 
scription in which the corporation has any lawful interest. 

TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOLS. 

§ 85. Upon the receipt of a petition signed by at least 50 legal 
voters of any school township, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to 
give notice of an election to be held at the next regular election of 
trustees for the purpose of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to 
establish a township high school. Notice of such election shall be posted 
in at least ten of the most public places throughout the township for 
at least ten days before the day of such regular election, and may be 
in the following form : 

Notice of Election. 

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 

19. . . ., an election will be held at for the purpose 

of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to establish a township high 

school for the benefit of township number , range number 

The polls will be opened "at o'clock .... m., and closed at 

o'clock m. 

A B 

Township Treasurer. 



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The trustees of schools shall conduct the election, canvass and declare 
the result. The ballots shall be in substantially the following form, 
to-wit : 



For the establishment of a township high school. 



Against the establishment of a township high school. 



The voter shall make an X or cross mark in the square following and 
opposite the proposition favored, and the ballot shall be so counted. (As 
amended by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 86. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of establishing 
a township high school it shall be the duty of the treasurer to call a 
special election on any Saturday within sixty days for the purpose of 
electing a township high school board of education, to consist of five 
members, notice of which election shall be given for the same time and 
in the same manner as provided in the election of trustees of schools. 
The members elected shall determine by lot, at their first meeting, the 
length of term each is to serve. Two of the members shall serve for one 
year, two for two years and one for three years from the second Satur- 
day of April next preceding their election. At the expiration of the 
term of office of any member or members, a successor or successors shall 
be elected, each of whom shall serve for three years, which subsequent 
election shall be held od the second Saturday in April. In case of a 
vacancy the board of education shall call an election without delay, to 
be held on any Saturday. Within ten days after their election the 
members of the township high school board of education shall meet and 
organize by electing one of their number president, and by electing a 
secretary. It shall be the duty of such high school board of education 
to establish, at some central point most convenient to a majority of the 
pupils of the township, a high school for the education of the more 
advanced pupils. (As amended by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 87. Two or more adjoining townships, or two or more adjoining 
school districts, whether in the same or different townships, may, upon 
petition of at least fifty legal voter? in each of the townships or school 
districts, or if a school district contains fewer than 150 voters, then 
by at least one-third of the legal voters of such district, and upon an 
affirmative vote in each of such townships or districts, at an election held 
pursuant to the provisions of section 85 of this Act, establish and main- 
tain in the manner provided for township high schools, a high school 
for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory described in such 
petition. 

§ 88. The inhabitants of any territory composed of parts of adjoin- 
ing townships may create such territory into a high school district by a 
petition signed by at least 50 legal voters and an affirmative vote in 
such territory, and may elect a board of education therefor, as in other 



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high school districts. When part of a township has been included in 
any high school district pursuant to any of the provisions of this Act, 
the remainder of such township, not included in any high school dis- 
trict, shall constitute a township for high school purposes. (As amended 
by an Act approved June 5, 1911.) 

§ 89. Any school district having a population of two thousand in- 
habitants or more may, in the manner herein provided for establishing 
and maintaining a township high school, establish and maintain a 
high school for the benefit of the inhabitants of such school district, 
and elect a board of education therefor with the same powers conferred 
on township high school boards of education. The territory of such 
district when so organized for high school purposes shall constitute 
a high school district for high school purposes distinct and separate 
from the common school district having the same boundaries, and the 
high school board of education of such high school district shall have 
the same power to levy taxes and establish and maintain high schools 
as township high school boards of education organized under this Act 
possess, and such taxes shall be in addition to the taxes authorized to 
be levied by section 189 of this Act. All school districts which have 
heretofore organized under this section, elected a high school board of 
education, and are maintaining a high school, shall be regarded as high 
school districts distinct and separate from the common school district 
having the same boundaries, and the high school board of education of 
such high school district shall have the same power of taxation as 
township high school boards of education organized under this Act. 
A township or part of a township in which there i* no township high 
school may be annexed to an adjacent high school district organized 
under this section in the same manner as near as may be as is provided 
in sections 94, 95 and 96 of this Act for the annexation of territory 
to a township in which a high school has been established 

§ 90. When any city in this State having a population of not less 
than one thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants 
lies within two or more townships, that township in which a majority, 
of the inhabitants of the city reside shall, with the city, constitute under 
this Act a school township for high school purposes. 

§ 91. For the purpose of building school houses, supporting the school 
and paying other necessary expenses, the territory for the benefit of 
which a high school is established under any of the provisions of this 
Act, shall be regarded as a school district, and the board of education 
thereof shall, in all respects, have the power and discharge the duties of 
school directors for such district. 

§ 92. When any district desires to discontinue the high school, the 
treasurer, upon petition of a majority of the legal voters of the district 
filed at least fifteen days preceding the regular election of trustees of 
schools with the treasurer of such district, shall give notice of an elec- 
tion, to be held on the day of the regular election of trustees, for the 
purpose of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to discontinue the 
township high school, which notice shall be given in the same manner 
and for the same length of time, and in substantially the same form, as 



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the notice provided for in section 85 of this Act. The ballots for such 
election shall be canvassed in the manner provided for in section 85 
of this Act. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in 
favor of discontinuing the high school, the trustees of schools shall 
surrender the assets of the high school to the district fund of the town- 
ship or townships interested in proportion of the assessed valuation of 
the townships or parts of the townships comprising such district. 

§ 93. When any township in any county under township organization 
shall contain two political towns divided by a navigable stream as recog- 
nized by the United States, each of which shall contain a city of not 
less than one thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, 
each town shall constitute a township under this Act for high school 
purposes. 

§ 94. A township or part of a township in which there is no township 
high school may be annexed, in the manner hereinafter provided, to an 
adjacent township in which a township high school' has been established. 
Upon petition of 5 per cent of the legal voters of the territory to be 
annexed, and of the township to which annexation is desired, filed with 
the treasurers of the respective townships at least fifteen days preceding 
the regular election of trustees of schools, the respective treasurers shall 
give notice to the voters concerned that an election for or against 
annexing the township, or part of a township, as the case may be, will 
be held at the next regular election of trustees of schools in each 
township, by posting notices of such election in at least ten of the most 
public places in the territorv to be annexed, and in the adjacent township 
at least ten days before the date of such regular election. Such notice 
may be in the following form, to wit: 

HIGH SCHOOL ANNEXATION. 

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 1 , 

an election will be held at for the purpose of voting "for" or. 

"against" the proposition to annex for township high school purposes the 
following territory, to-wit: (Here insert the number and range of the 
township when the whole of the township is to be annexed, or when part 
of a township is to be annexed insert the said part of said township), to 

township number , range number (Township having an 

established high school). 

The polls will be opened at o'clock, m., and closed at 

o'clock, m. 

A B 

Treasurer. 

When less than the whole of a township is to be annexed, only the 
voters in the territory to be annexed shall have the right to vote^ and 
the trustees of schools shall provide a voting place for that territory and 
the judges and clerks of such election. 

§ 95. If petitions request the township treasurers, respectively, to 
submit said questions at a special election, it shall be the duty of the 
township treasurers to call the respective elections, as provided in the 
foregoing sections, for some day and hour not exceeding thirty days 
from the date of the filing of the petition ; and to give at least ten days' 
notice of the election, in which event the polls of the election shall be 



open in at least two polling places and for at least four consecutive 
hours, and the polling places in the respective townships shall be desig- 
nated and fixed by the treasurers respectively. If a majority of the 
votes cast in the township having an established high school, and a 
majority of the votes cast in the territory to be annexed, shall be in favor 
of the proposition, the township or territory, as the case may be shall 
be and become so annexed, and the property in such township or territory 
shall thereafter be subject to taxation for the support and maintenance 
of the township high school, including the payment of any bonded 
indebtedness of such township high school, and interest thereon there- 
after falling due, as fully and to the same extent as is provided by 
law for the levying of taxes upon property for the support and mainte- 
nance of township high schools. The taxes collected from such township 
or territory annexed for the support and maintenance of a township 
high school shall be paid by the officer collecting the same to the township 
treasurer of the township having the established high school. 

§ 96. Such election shall be held in the manner provided by law for 
the holding of elections for township trustees of schools, and the ballots 
of such election shall be canvassed, and the returns thereof made as in 
other school elections. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor 
of the proposition, it shall be the duty of the township treasurer of the 
township which is annexed, or part thereof, as the case may be, to file a 
certificate with the county clerk of the county in which such township is 
located, or if such township is situated in more than one county, with the 
respective clerks of such counties, certifying to the territory so annexed 
and giving a description thereof. 

§ 97. Upon the petition of not less than fifty voters of any high 
school district, filed with the township treasurer at least fifteen days 
preceding the regular election of members of the board of education for 
such high school district, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to notify 
the voters of such district that an election "for" or "against" the 
establishment of a manual training department for such high school will 
be held at the next annual election of the board of education by posting 
notices of such election -in at least ten of the most public places through- 
out the township for at least ten days before the day of such regular 
election, which notice may be in the following form, to wit: 

HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 1 , 

an election will be held at for the purpose of voting "for" 

or "against" the proposition to establish a manual training department for 

the high school in township No , range The polls 

will be opened at o'clock, m., and closed at o'clock, m. 



, Township Treasurer. 

The ballots for such election shall be canvassed as in other elections, 
and may have on them the names of the persons voted for at such elec- 
tion. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of establishing 
a manual training department for the high school in such district, it 
shall be the duty of the board of education to establish and maintain 
therein such department as a part of the high school. 



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COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOLS. 



§ 98. In each county adopting township organization, the board of 
supervisors, and in other counties the county court, may establish a 
county normal school for the purpose of fitting teachers for the common 
schools. They shall be authorized to levy taxes and appropriate moneys 
for the support of said schools, and also for the purchase of necessary 
grounds and buildings, furniture, apparatus, etc., and to hold and 
acquire, by gift or purchase, either from individuals or corporations, any 
real estate, buildings or other property, for the use of said schools, said 
taxes to be levied and collected as all other county taxes : Provided, 
however, that in counties not under township organization, county courts 
shall not be authorized to proceed under the provisions of this Act until 
the subject shall have been submitted to a vote of the People, at a 
general election, and it shall appear that a majority of all the votes 
cast on the subject, at said election, shall be in favor of the establishment 
of a county normal school. The ballots used in voting on this subject 
may read: "For a county normal school," or "against a county normal 
school." 

§ 99. The management and control of said school shall be in a 
county board of education, consisting of not less than five nor more 
than eight persons, of which board the chairman of the board of super- 
visors, or the judge of the county court, as the case may be, and the 
county superintendent of schools, shall be ex officio members. The 
other members shall be chosen by the board of supervisors or county 
court, and shall hold their offices for a term of three years. But at the 
first election one-third shall be chosen for one year, one-third for two 
years, and one-third for three years, and thereafter one-third shall be 
elected annually. Said elections shall be held at the annual meeting 
of the board of supervisors in September, or at the September term of 
the county court, as the case may be. 

§ 100. Said board of education shall have power to hire teachers, 
and to make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the man- 
agement of said schools. A majority of the board shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business, and a meeting of the board may 
be called at any time by the president or secretary, or by any three of 
the members thereof. Said board shall proceed to organize within 
twenty days after their appointment, by electing a president, who shall 
hold his office for one year. The county superintendent shall be ex 
officio secretary of the board. Said board shall make to the board of 
supervisors at their annual meeting in September, or to the county 
court at the September term, as the case may be, a full report of the 
condition and expenditures of said county normal school, together with 
an estimate of the expenses of said school for the ensuing year. 

§ 101. Two or more counties may unite in establishing a normal 
school, in which case the per cent of tax levied for the support of said 
school shall be the same in each county. 

§ 102. In all counties that have already established normal schools, 
the action of the board of supervisors in so doing, and all appropria- 
tions made by them for their support, are hereby legalized, and said 



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board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to make 
further appropriations for the support of such school already established, 
until such schools have been established under the previous sections of 
this Act. 

SCHOOL DIRECTORS. 

§ 103. In all school districts having a population of fewer than 
one thousand inhabitants, and not governed by any special Act. there 
shall be elected a board of directors to consist of three members. 

§ 104. The directors of each district shall be a body politic and cor- 
porate, by the name of "school directors of district No county 

of and State of Illinois/' and by that name may sue 

and be sued in all courts and places where judicial proceedings are had. 

§ 105. Any person not a treasurer, or a. trustee of schools, who has 
attained to the age of 21 years, who is a resident of the school district 
and able to read and write the English language, shall be eligible to the 
office of school director. 

§ 106. The annual -election of school directors shall be on the third 
Saturday of April. At the first regular election of directors after the 
passage of this Act, a successor to the director whose term of office then 
expires shall be elected, and thereafter one director shall be elected in 
each district, annually, who shall hold his office for three years. When 
vacancies occur by removal from the district or otherwise, the remain- 
ing director or directors shall, without delay, order an election to fill 
such vacancies, which election shall be held on Saturday. 

§ 107. Notice of all elections in organized districts shall be given 
by the directors at least ten days previous to the day of election. Such 
notice shall be posted in at least three of the most public places in the 
district, shall specify the place where such election is to be held, the 
time of opening and closing the polls, and the question or questions to 
be submitted, and may be in the following form, to wit: 

NOTICE OF EECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 1 , 

an election will be held at ' for the purpose of electing 

school director for the district No in 

county. . The polls will be opened at o'clock, m., 

and closed at o'clock, m. 

Dated this day of , 1 . . . . 

A B President, 

C D Clerk. 

Should the directors fail or refuse to order any regular or special 
election, it shall be the duty of the township treasurer, or if the town- 
ship treasurer fails to do so, of the county superintendent, to order such 
election within ten days. 

§ 108. Two of the directors ordering an election shall act as judges, 
and one as clerk. If the directors, or any of them, shall fail to attend 
an election, or shall refuse to act when present, and in elections to fill 
vacancies, the legal voters assembled shall choose such additional mem- 

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bers as may be necessary to act as judges and clerk of the election. If 
the directors or judges shall be of the opinion that on account of the 
small attendance of voters the public good requires it, or if a majority 
of the voters present desire it, they shall postpone the election until the 
next Saturday, at the same time and place. If notice shall not have been 
given as required, the election shall be held on any Saturday, notice 
being given as required by law. In case of a tie, the judges shall decide 
the vote by lot on the day of election. 

§ 109. Within ten days after the election, the judges shall cause the 
poll book to be delivered to the township treasurer, with a certificate 
showing the election of directors and the names of the persons elected; 
which poll book shall be filed by the treasurer, and shall be evidence of 
the election. In a district divided by a township line the poll books 
shall be returned to the treasurer who receives the taxes of the district. 

§ 110. Within ten days after the annual election, the directors shall 
meet and organize by appointing one of their aumber president, and 
another of their number clerk. The clerk shall at once report to the 
proper treasurer or treasurers the names of the president and clerk so 
appointed. 

§ 111. The directors shall hold regular meetings at such times as 
they may designate, and special meetings at the call of the president or 
any two members. Xo official business shall be transacted by the direc- 
tors except at a regular or a special meeting. Two directors shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If the president or 
clerk be absent from any meeting, or refuse to perform his official duties, 
a president or a clerk pro (rm/iorc shall be appointed. 

§ 112. The clerk shall keep in a punctual, orderly and reliable 
manner, a record of the official acts of the board which shall be signed 
by the president and the clerk, and submitted to the township treasurer 
for his inspection and approval on the first Mondays of April and 
October, and at such other times as the treasurer may require. On all 
questions involving the expenditure of money, the yeas and nays shall 
be taken and entered on the records of the proceedings of the board. 

§ 113. On or before the seventh day of July, annually, the clerk 
shall report to the treasurer having the custody of the funds of his dis- 
trict, such statistics and other information in relation to the schools of 
his district as the treasurer is required to include in his report to the 
county superintendent of schools. 

§ 114. The board of directors shall have the following additional 
duties : 

First — To make, at the annual election of directors, to the voters 
there present, a detailed report of receipts and expenditures, and trans- 
mit a copy of the same within five days to the township treasurer. 

Second — To report to the county superintendent within ten days the 
names of all teachers employed., with the dates of the beginning and end 
of their contracts. 

Third — To provide for the revenue necessary to maintain schools in 
their district. 



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Fourth — To determine, in case of a district composed of parts of two 
or more townships, which treasurer is to receive the taxes of the district, 
and to notify the collectors in writing accordingly. 

Fifth — To adopt and enforce all necessary rules and regulations for 
the management and government of the public schools of their district. 

Sixth — To visit and inspect the public schools as the good of the 
schools may require. 

Seventh — To appoint all teachers and fix the amount of their sal- 
aries. 

'Eighth — To direct what branches of study shall be taught, what text 
books and apparatus shall be used, and to enforce uniformity of text 
books in the public schools ; but they shall not permit books to be changed 
oftener than once in 'four years. 

Ninth — To establish and keep in operation for at least six months in 
each year, and longer if practicable, a sufficient number of free schools 
for the accommodation of all persons in the district over the age of six 
and under twenty-one years, and to secure for all such persons the right 
and opportunity to an equal education in such schools. 

Tenth — To purchase, at the expense of the district, a sufficient num- 
ber of text books used to supply children whose parents are unable to 
buy them. Such text books shall be loaned only, and the directors shall 
require the teacher to see that they are properly cared for and returned 
at the end of each term of school. 

Eleventh — To deliver to the township treasurer on or before the 
seventh day of July, annually, all teachers' schedules made and certified 
as required by law. 

Twelfth — To pay no public money to any teacher unless such teacher 
at the time of his or her employment shall have held a certificate of 
qualification obtained under the provisions of this Act, and shall have 
kept and furnished schedules as required by this Act, and shall ha\ 7 e 
satisfactorily accounted for books, apparatus and other property of the 
district that he may have taken in charge. 

Thirteenth — To cause a copy of the township treasurer's report of 
the financial condition of the district to be entered upon the records of 
the district, and to post the same at the front door of the building where 
the annual election of directors is held. 

§ 115. The board of school directors shall be clothed with the fol- 
lowing powers : 

First — To purchase a suitable book for their records. 

Second— To allow the clerk a reasonable compensation for his ser- 
vices, payable out of money not otherwise appropriated. 

Third — To dismiss a teacher for incompetency, cruelty, negligence, 
immorality or other sufficient cause. 

Fourth — To assign pupils to the several schools in the district; to 
admit non-resident pupils when it can be done without prejudice to the 
rights of resident pupils; to fix rates of tuition, and to collect and pay 
the same to the township treasurer for the use of the district. 



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Fifth — To suspend or expel pupils guilty of gross disobedience Or 
mis-conduct, and no action shall lie against them for such expulsion 
or suspension. 

Sixth — To provide that children under twelve years of age shall not 
be kept in school more than four hours daily. 

Seventh — To appropriate school funds for the purchase of libraries 
and apparatus, after provision has been made for the payment of all 
necessary school expenses. 

Eighth — To sell at public or private sale any personal property be- 
longing to the school district, and not needed for school purposes. 

Ninth — To grant special holidays whenever in their judgment such 
action is advisable, but no deduction shall be made from the time or 
compensation of a teacher on account of such days. 

Tenth — To have the control and supervision of all public school houses 
in their district, and to grant the temporary use of them, when not occu- 
pied by schools, for religious meetings and Sunday schools, for evening 
schools and literary societies, and for such other meetings as the direc- 
tors may deem proper. 

Eleventh — To decide when a site or building has become unnecessary, 
unsuitable, or inconvenient for a school. 

Twelfth — To borrow money, and issue bonds for. the purposes and in 
the manner provided by this Act. 

Thirteenth — To furnish each school with a flag and staff, as provided 
by law. 

Fourteenth — To establish classes having an average attendance of 
not fewer than fifteen pupils for the instruction of crippled children 
over the age of six and under twenty-one years. 

Fifteenth — To establish classes for the instruction of deaf children 
over the age of three and under twenty-one years : Provided, however, 
that no person shall be employed to teach the deaf who shall not have 
received instruction in the methods of teaching the deaf for a term of 
not less than one. year. 

Sixteenth — To establish kindergartens for the instruction of children 
between the age of four and six years, when authorized by a majority 
of the votes cast at an election held for that purpose under the pro- 
visions of section 198 of this Act : Provided, however, that the tuition 
or other expenses of such kindergartens shall be defrayed from the 
local tax and from the special school revenue of the district : And, pro- 
vided, further, that no one shall be employed to teach in a kindergarten 
who does not hold a certificate issued as provided by law certifying that 
the holder has been examined upon kindergarten principles and is com- 
petent to teach the same. 

§ 116. Every order issued by the school director shall state for 
what purposes or on what account it is issued, and shall be in the fol- 
lowing form, to wit: 



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$ . State of Illinois, , 1 . . . 

THE TREASURER OF TOWNSHIP. 

No Range No , in County, 

Pay to the order of 

the sum of Dollars, 

100 
for 

By order of the Board of Directors of 

District No in said County. 

President, 

Clerk. 

Order No. 

An order paid in full and properly indorsed shall be a sufficient re- 
ceipt for the purposes of this Act. The school directors shall issue no 
order, except for teachers' wages, unless at the time there are sufficient 
funds in the hands of the treasurer to pay it. 

§ 117. When there is no money in the treasury to defray the or- 
dinary and necessary expenses of the district, the directors may issue 
warrants against and in anticipation of any taxes levied for the payment 
of the ordinary and necessary expenses of the district, to the extent of 
75 per cent of the total amount of the tax levied. Such warrants shall 
show upon their face that they are payable solely from the taxes when 
collected, and shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment of 
the taxes against which they are issued. And such taxes shall be set 
apart and held for their payment, 

§ 118. The directors shall pay the wages of teachers monthly. Upon 
the receipt of a schedule properly certified the directors shall forth- 
with issue and deliver to the teacher an order on the township treasurer 
for the amount named in the schedule. Such order shall state the rate 
and time for which the teacher is paid. It shall not be lawful for the 
directors to issue an order until they have duly certified to the schedule; 
nor shall it be lawful for the directors, after the date for filing schedules 
as fixed by law, to certify any schedule not delivered to them before that 
date, when such schedule is for time taught before the first of July pre- 
ceding, nor to give an order in payment of a teacher's wages for the time 
covered by such delinquent schedule. 

§ 119. It shall not be lawful for a board of directors to purchase or 
locate a school house site, or to purchase, build or move a school house, 
or to levy a tax to extend schools beyond nine months, without a vote of 
the people at an election called and conducted as required by section 198 
of this Act. A .majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to authorize 
the directors to act. If no locality shall receive a majority of the votes, 
the directors may select a suitable site. The site selected by either 
method shall be the school site for such district. 

§ 120. In case the compensation for the school house site cannot be 
agreed upon, it shall be the duty of the directors to have such compensa- 
tion determined in the manner provided by law for the exercise of the 



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right of eminent domain : Provided, however, that no tract of land out- 
side the limits of any incorporated city or village, and within forty rods 
of the dwelling of the owner of the land, shall be taken for a school site 
without the owner's consent. 

, § 121. Pupils may be transferred from one district to another upon 
the written consent of a majority of the directors of each district, which 
written consent shall be filed with the treasurer and shall be evidence 
of such consent. The duty of collecting the amount due on account of 
pupils transferred shall devolve upon the directors of the district in 
which the school was taught. Whenever the number of children between 
the ages of 6 and 16 years in any district school shall be fewer than six, 
it shall be lawful for the directors of such district to arrange for the 
transfer of pupils and, when necessary, provide free transportation for 
them to a neighboring school. Such transfer and free transportation 
shall be held to be a compliance with paragraph 9 of section 114 of this 
Act, entitling the said district to receive its share of the funds distributed 
in accordance with section 35 of this Act. (As amended by an Act 
approved June 2, 1911.) 



BOARDS OF EDUCATION. 

§ 123. In all school districts having a population of not fewer than 
one thousand and not more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, 
and not governed by special Acts, and in such other districts as may 
hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have such 
population, there shall be elected a board of education to consist of a 
president, six members and three additional members for every additional 
ten thousand inhabitants: Provided, however, that in no case shall 
such board consist of more than fifteen members. When such board of 
education is the successor of the school directors, all rights of property, 
and all rights regarding causes of action existing or vested in such direc- 
tors, shall vest in it as fully and completely as they were vested in the 
school directors. 

§ 124. Incorporated cities and villages,, except such as have con- 
trol of schools by special Acts, shall remain parts of the school townships 
in which they are situated and be subject to the provisions of this Act. 

§ 125. The president of the board of education shall be elected an- 
nually, at the time the members of the board are elected, and shall hold 
his office for the term of one year, he shall preside at all meetings, 
but shall have no vote except in case of a tie. He shall perform such 
duties as are imposed by law upon presidents of boards of directors, or 
such as may be imposed upon him by the board of education. 

§ 126. The election of boards of education shall be governed by the 
provisions of this Act relating to the election of boards of directors : 
Provided, however, that boards of education shall have power to estab- 
lish a suitable number of voting precincts, and fix the boundaries there- 
of for the accommodation of the voters of the district in which such 
election is held, in each of which voting precincts there shall be one poll- 



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ing place designated by the board. Whenever the board of education 
shall establish more than one voting precinct for such election they shall 
appoint two judges and one clerk for each polling place, assigning so 
far as practicable at least one member of such board to each polling 
place. When the time for the election of members of boards of educa- 
tion or boards of inspectors is fixed by virtue of any special Act, such 
election may be held at the time provided for the election of school 
directors. 

§ 127. The board of education shall have all the powers of school 
directors, be subject to the same limitations, and, in addition thereto, 
they shall have the power, and it shall be their duty : 

First — To establish and support free schools for not less than six nor 
more than ten months in each year. 

Second — To repair and improve school houses and furnish them with 
the necessary fixtures, furniture, apparatus, libraries and fuel. 

Third — To examine teachers by examinations supplemental 'to any 
other examinations, and to employ teachers and fix the amount of their 
salaries. 

Fourth — To establish schools of different grades, to adopt regulations 
for the admission of pupils into the same, and to assign pupils to the 
several schools. 

Fifth — To buy or lease sites for school houses with the necessary 
grounds : Provided, however, that it shall not be lawful for such board 
of education to purchase or locate a school house site, or to purchase, 
build or move a school house, unless authorized by a majority of all the 
votes cast at an election called for such purpose in pursuance of a petition 
signed by not fewer than five hundred legal voters of such district, or 
by one-fifth of all the legal voters of such district : And, provided, 
further, that if no locality shall receive a majority of all the votes cast 
at such election, the board of education may, if, in their judgment, the 
public interest requires it, proceed to select a suitable school house site; 
and the site so chosen by them in such case shall be legal and valid 
the same as if it had been determined by a majority of all the votes cast ; 
and the site so selected shall be the school house site for such district; 
and said district shall have the right to take the same for the purpose of 
a school house site, either with or without the owner's consent, by con- 
demnation or otherwise: And, provided, further, that all school house 
sites heretofore located or selected by boards of education in cases in 
which at an election duly called and held as herein provided, no site 
received a majority of the votes cast, are hereby legalized and made valid 
school house sites in and for the district for which they were so located 
and selected. 

Sixth — To levy a tax to extend schools beyond a period of ten months, 
in each year, upon a petition of a majority of the voters of the district. 

Seventh — To employ a competent superintendent who may be required 
to act as principal or teacher in such schools. 

Eighth — To divide the district into sub-districts, to create new ones, 
and to alter or consolidate them. 



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Ninth — To dismiss and remove any teacher, whenever in their opinion 
he is not qualified to teach, or whenever in their opinion the interests of 
the school may require it. 

Tenth — To apportion the pupils to the several schools. 

Eleventh — To appoint a secretary who shall keep a faithful record of 
all their proceedings. 

Twelfth — To prepare and publish annually in some newspaper, or in 
pamphlet form, a report including the school attendance in the year 
preceding, the program of studies, the number of persons between the 
ages of 12 and 21 unable to read and write, and a statement of the 
receipts and expenditures, with the balance on hand. 

Thirteenth — To request the trustees of schools, in writing, to convey 
any real estate or interest therein used for school purposes, or held in 
trust for schools. 

PENSION FUND. 

§ 127a. The board of education may establish and maintain a 
teachers' pension and retirement fund. Said board of education of 
said district shall cause to be elected a board of management for the 
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Said board of man- 
agement shall consist of either three or nine members, as said board of 
education shall determine. Two-thirds of the membership of said board 
of management shall consist of members of the active teaching force of 
said district, who are contributors to said pension and retirement fund 
and they shall be elected by the members of the active teaching force of 
said district who are contributors to said pension and retirement fund, 
in such manner and for such terms as said board of education shall 
determine. One-third of the membership of said board of management 
shall consist of members of the board of education, to be selected by 
such board of education for such terms as said board may determine. 
(Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127b. The teachers' pension and retirement fund shall consist of 
moneys contributed by teachers desiring its benefits under the provi- 
sions of this Act; of moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, 
bequests and otherwise, and of moneys paid into said fund in pursuance 
of any law now in force or hereafter enacted. (Added by an Act ap- 
proved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127c. The board of education shall have charge of such fund and 
shall invest the same in the manner prescribed by section 72 of this 
Act, and shall have power to make payments from such fund of pensions 
and annuities granted in pursuance of this Act; and shall adopt such 
by-laws, rules and regulations for administering the fund as it shall 
deem advisable. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127d. Any person who shall be employed to teach in the public 
schools of the district after this Act shall take effect shall be entitled 
to the benefits of the fund upon complying with the provisions of this 
Act. and for the purpose of this Act such persons shall be divided into 
the following classes : 

First — Those who have taught five years or fewer than five years. 



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Second — Those who have taught more than five years and not more 
than ten years. 

Third — Those who have taught more than ten years and not more 
than fifteen years. 

Fourth — Those who have taught more than fifteen years. 

After this Act shall take effect, there shall be set apart from the 
salaries .of all persons in the employ of the board of education as teachers, 
$5.00 per annum while they remain in the first class; $10.00 per annum 
while they remain in the second class; $15.00 per annum while they 
remain in the third class, and $30.00 per annum while they remain in 
the fourth class, which amounts shall be deducted by the board of educa- 
tion in equal installments from their respective salaries at the regular 
times for the payment thereof, and be paid into and constitute a part 
of the teachers' pension and retirement fund of the district. (Added 
by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127e. Teachers who become contributors to and beneficiaries of the 
pension and retirement fund, under any provisions of this Act, may 
count past services as a part of the period of twenty-five years herein- 
after specified, by paying into the fund a sum equal to that which he 
or she would have contributed under the provisions of this Act, had he 
or she been a regular contributor to said fund during said period of 
past service, together with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per centum 
per annum from the time such payments would have been made to the 
time such person shall, by making such payment, become entitled to 
the benefits of such past service. (Added by an Act approved June 
6, 1911.) 

§ 127f. The board of management shall adopt a resolution declaring 
the maturity of service and right to the immediate benefits of the fund 
in favor of persons entitled to the benefits thereof in the following 
cases : 

First — When any such persons shall have taught in the public schools 
for a period of twenty-five years within the meaning of this Act. 

Second — When any contributor to the fund shall have taught fifteen 
years in the public schools within the meaning of this Act and shall 
have been declared by three competent physicians, who have made a 
physical examination of the teacher, at the request of the board of man- 
agement, to be suffering from a permanent disability : Provided, how- 
ever, that the board of management shall not declare any contributor 
entitled to the immediate benefits of the fund until he or she shall have 
taught in the public schools of the district three-fifths of the term of 
service of twenty-five or fifteen years, as the case may be : And, pro- 
vided, further, that no person shall be entitled to the benefits of the 
fund until he or she shall have retired from service as a teacher. (Added 
by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127g. Each teacher so retired or retiring after twenty-five years of 
service shall be entitled thereafter to receive an annuity, of not to exceed 
$400.00, and each teacher so retired because of permanent disability 
after fifteen years of service shall receive as an annual pension such 
proportion of the full annuity of $400,00 as the sum contributed by 



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such teacher so retired hears to the total contributions required for a 
full annuity. Pensions and annuities shall be paid monthly during the 
school year out of the fund created in accordance with the provisions 
of this Act, in the manner provided by law for the payment of the 
salaries of teachers. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127h. The president and secretary of the board of education shall 
certify monthly to the treasurer all amounts deducted from the salaries 
of teachers, special teachers, principals and superintendents, in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this Xct, which amounts, together with all 
other moneys contributed to the fund, shall be set apart and held by 
the treasurer of the district as a special fund for the purposes herein 
specified, and shall be paid out on recommendation of the board of 
management upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of the 
board of education. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127i. The treasurer of the district shall be ex officio the custodian 
of the pension and retirement fund and shall hold the same subject to 
the control and direction of the board of education, in accordance with 
the provisions of this Act. The treasurer shall keep his books and 
accounts concerning such fund in the manner prescribed by the board 
of education and his books and accounts shall be subject to the inspec- 
tion of the board or any member thereof. The treasurer shall be liable 
on his official bond for the proper performance of his duties and the 
conservation of the fund created by this Act. Any legal proceedings 
which may be necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this 
Act shall be brought by and in the name of the board of education for 
the use of the pension and retirement fund. (Added by an Act ap- 
proved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127 j. If, at any time, a teacher who is willing to continue is not 
reemployed or is discharged before the time he or she would be entitled 
to a pension under the provisions of this Act, then such teacher shall 
be refunded the money he or she may have contributed. Any teacher 
who shall retire voluntarily from the service prior to entering the fourth 
class shall receive a refund of one-half the money he or she will have 
contributed. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127k. All persons who shall be employed as teachers by the board 
of education shall accept the provisions of this Act by such employment, 
and thereupon become contributors to the pension and retirement fund 
in accordance with the terms thereof. And the provisions of this Act 
shall become a part of and enter into any such contract of employment. 
(Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 1271. All pensions or annuities granted under the provisions of this 
Act, and every portion thereof, shall be exempt from attachment or 
.garnishment process, and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained 
or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or proceedings 
whatsoever issued out of or by any court in this State for the payment 
of satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, claim, damage, demand 
pr judgment against any pensioner hereunder, and no annuitant or pen- 



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sioner shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension or 
annuity, or any part thereof, either by way of mortgage or otherwise. 
(Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127m. The treasurer shall not be entitled to retain any interest 
accruing from the pension and retirement fund, but such interest shall 
be covered into such fund, become a part thereof and be subject to the 
purposes of this Act. The treasurer shall also set aside annually all 
interest accruing from the district funds of the district, whether levied 
for educational or building purposes, and shall add such interest to the 
pension and retirement fund. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 127n. In any school district where there is not sufficient revenue 
to maintain a teachers' pension fund under the foregoing sections, such 
school district may, by a majority vote, establish a fund for the retire- 
ment of teachers who are over 50 years old and who have faithfully 
served such district for twenty-five years. The fund shall be derived 
from such revenues as may be devoted to the purpose by the directors 
of a district or by direct appropriation by a town. The amount of the 
annual pension allowed to any person under the provisions of this section 
shall not exceed one-half the annual compensation received by such 
person at the time of retirement and in no case shall exceed four hun- 
dred dollars. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CITIES OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. 

§ 128. In cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, 
the board of education shall consist of twenty-one members, to be 
appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
common council, seven of whom shall be appointed for the term of one 
year, seven for the term of two years, and seven for the term of three 
years. At the expiration of the term of any members of said board, their 
successors shall be appointed in like manner and shall hold their office 
for the term of three years. Any vacancy which may occur shall be filled 
by appointment of the mayor, with the approval of the common council, 
for the unexpired term. 

§ 129. Any person having resided in any such city more than five 
years next preceding his appointment shall be eligible to membership 
of such board of education. 

§ 130. The board of education shall appoint one of its members 
president. It shall also appoint a secretary and such other officers and 
employes as it shall deem necessary, and shall prescribe their duties, 
compensation and terms of office. 

§ 131. The board shall provide books in which shall be kept a faith- 
ful record' of all their proceedings. The yeas and nays shall be taken 
and entered on the records of the proceedings of the board upon all 
questions involving the expenditure of money. 

§ 132. The board of education shall have charge and control of the 
public schools in such cities, and shall have power with the concurrence 
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First — To erect or purchase buildings suitable for school houses, and 
keep the same in repair. 

Second — To buy or lease sites for school houses with the necessary 
grounds. If the board of education shall be unable to agree with the 
owner or owners for the purchase of such site, then, with the concurrence 
of the city council, it may acquire the title to such site in the manner 
provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Such 
proceedings to condemn shall be in the name of the city in trust for the 
use of schools. 

Third — To issue bonds for the purpose of building, furnishing and 
repairing school houses, for purchasing school sites, and to provide for 
the payment of such bonds; and to borrow money for school purposes 
upon the credit of the city. 

§ 133. The said board of education shall have power: 

First — To furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, furniture and 
apparatus. 

Second— To maintain, support and establish schools and supply from 
taxes the inadequacy of the school funds for the salaries of teachers. 

Third To hire buildings or rooms for the use of the board or of 

schools. 

Fourth To employ teachers and fix the amount of their compensation. 

Fifth To prescribe the school books to be used, and the studies in the 

different schools. 

Sixth — To divide the city into school districts, and to alter them and 
create new ones as circumstances may require, and generally to have and 
possess all the rights, powers and authority required for the proper 
management of schools, with power to enact such ordinances as may be 
deemed necessary and expedient for such purpose. 

Seventh— To expel any pupil guilty of gross disobedience or mis- 
conduct. 

Eighth — To dismiss and remove any teacher for cause in the manner 
provided in section 161 of this Act. 

Ninth — To apportion the pupils to the several schools. 

Tenth — To lease school property and to lend moneys belonging to the 
school fund. 

Eleventh — To grant the use of assembly halls and class rooms when 
not otherwise needed, including light, heat and attendants, for public 
lectures, concerts and other educational and social interests, free of 
cost, but under such provisions and control as they may see fit to 
impose. 

§ 134. It shall be the duty of the board of education : 

First — To superintend and control the schools in such cities. 

Second — To examine all persons offering themselves as candidates for 
teachers, and, when found well qualified, to give them certificates gra- 
tuitously. 

Third — To visit all the public schools as often as once a month. 

Fourth — To establish such by-laws, rules and regulations for the 
establishment, maintenance and government of a proper and uniform 
system of discipline in the several schools as may in their opinion be 
necessary. 



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Fifth — To determine from time to time how many and what class of 
teachers may be employed in each of the public schools, and to employ 
such teachers and fix their compensation. 

Sixth — To take charge of the school houses, furniture, grounds and 
other property belonging to the school districts, and see that they are 
kept in good condition and not suffered to be unnecessarily injured or 
deteriorated. 

Seventh — To provide fuel and such other necessaries for the schools 
as, in their opinion, may be required in the school houses or other 
property belonging to the said districts. 

Eighth — To establish and maintain vacation schools and play grounds 
under such rules and regulations as it shall prescribe. 

Ninth — To inquire into the progress of pupils and the government 
of the schools. 

Tenth — To prescribe the method and course of discipline and instruc- 
tion in the respective schools, and to see that they are maintained and 
pursued in the proper manner. 

Eleventh — To prescribe what studies shall be taught, and what books 
and apparatus shall be used. 

Twelfth — To report to the city council, from time to time, any 
suggestions they may deem expedient or requisite in relation to the 
schools and the school fund, or the management thereof, and generally 
to recommend the establishment of new schools and districts. 

Thirteenth — To prepare and publish an annual report, which shall 
include the receipts and expenditures of each school, specifying the 
source of such receipts and the object of such expenditures. 

Fourteenth — To communicate to the city council, from time to time, 
such information as may be required. 

§ 135. None of the powers herein conferred upon the board of 
education of such- cities shall be exercised except at a regular meeting. 

§ 136. All conveyances of real estate shall be made to the city and 
the title of all property acquired by condemnation shall be vested in the 
city, in trust for the use of schools, and no sale of real estate or interest 
therein used for school purposes or held in trust for schools shall be 
made, except by the city council upon the written request of the board 
of education. 

§ 137. All moneys raised by taxation for school purposes or received 
from the State common school fund, or from any other source for 
school purposes, shall be held by the city treasurer as a special fund for 
school purposes, subject to the order of the board of education, upon 
warrants to be countersigned by the mayor and city comptroller, or, if 
there be no city comptroller, by the city clerk. 

§ 138. The board of education shall not add to the expenditures 
for school purposes anything over and above the amount that shall be 
received from the State common school fund, the rental of school lands 
or property, and the amount annually appropriated for such purposes. 
If the board shall add to such expenditure, the city shall not, in any 
case, be liable therefor. And nothing herein contained shall be construed 
so as to authorize the levy or collection of any tax upon the demand or 
under the direction of the board of education. 



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# § 139. All schools in such cities shall be governed as herein provided 
and no power given to the board of education shall be exercised by the 
city council of such cities. 

PARENTAL SCHOOLS. 

§ 140. In cities having a population of 100,000 inhabitants or more, 
there shall be established, maintained and conducted, one or more 
parental or truant schools for the purpose of affording a place of confine- 
ment, discipline, instruction and maintenance of children of compulsory 
school age who may be committed thereto in the manner hereinafter 
provided. 

§ 141. For the purpose of establishing such school or schools, sites 
may be purchased and buildings constructed or premises rented in the 
same manner as is provided for in the case of public schools in such 
cities; but no such school shall be located at or near any penal institu- 
tion. It shall be the duty of the board of education to furnish such 
schools with such furniture, fixtures, apparatus and provisions as may 
be necessary for the maintenance and operation thereof. 

§ 142. The board of education may also employ a superintendent 
and all other necessary officers, agents and teachers; and shall prescribe 
the methods of discipline and the course of instruction; and shall exer- 
cise the same powers and perform the same duties as are prescribed by 
law for the management of other schools. 

§ 143. No religious instruction shall be given in such school except 
such as allowed by law to be given in public schools; but the board of 
education shall make suitable regulations so that the inmates may 
receive religious training in accordance with the belief of the parents of 
such children, either by allowing religious services to be held in the 
institution or by arranging for attendance at public service elsewhere. 

§ 144. It shall be the duty of the truant officer or agent of such 
board of education to petition, and any reputable citizen of the city 
may petition, the county or circuit court of the county to inquire into 
the case of any child of compulsory school age who is not attending 
school, and who has been guilty of habitual truancy, or persistent viola- 
tion of the rules of the public school, and the petition shall also state 
the names, if known, of the father and mother of such child, or the 
survivor of them ; and if neither father nor mother of such child is 
living, or found in the county, or if their names cannot be ascertained, 
then the name of the guardian, if there be one known; and if there be 
a parent living whose name can be ascertained, or a guardian, the 
petition shall' show whether or not the father or mother or a guardian 
consents to the commitment of such child to such parental or truant 
school. Such petition shall he verified by oath upon the belief of the 
petitioner, and upon being filed the judge of the county or circuit court 
shall have the child named in the petition brought before him for the 
purpose of determining the application in such petition contained. But 
no child shall be committed to such school who has ever been convicted 
of any offense punishable by confinement in any penal institution. 



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§ 145. Upon the filing of such petition the clerk of the court shall 
issue a writ to the sheriff of the county directing him to brino- such child 
before the court, and if the court shall find that the material facts set 
forth in the petition are true, and if, in the opinion of the court, such 
child is a fit person to be committed to such parental or truant school, 
an order shall be entered that such child be committed to such parental 
or truant school, to be kept there until he or she arrives at the age of 
fourteen years, unless sooner discharged in the manner hereinafter set 
forth. Before such hearing notice in writing shall be given to the 
parent or guardian of such child, if known, of the proceedings about 
to be instituted, that he or she may appear and resist the same if either 
of them so desire. 

§ 146. It shall be the duty of the parent or guardian of any child 
committed to this school to provide suitable clothing upon his or her 
entry into such school and from time to time thereafter as it may be 
needed, upon notice in writing from the superintendent or other proper 
officer of the school. In case any parent or guardian shall refuse or 
neglect to furnish such clothing, the same may be provided by the board 
of education, and suGh board may have an action against such parent or 
guardian of the child to recover the cost of such clothing with 10 per 
cent additional thereto. 

§ 147. The board of education of such city shall have power to es- 
tablish rules and regulations under which children committed to such 
parental or truant school may be allowed to return home upon parole, 
but to remain while upon parole in the legal custody and under the 
control of the officers and agents of such school, and subject at any time 
to be taken back within the enclosure of such school by the superinten- 
dent or an authorized officer of said school except as hereinafter pro- 
vided ; and full power to enforce such rules and regulations to retake any 
such child so upon parole is hereby conferred upon said board of educa- 
tion. No child shall be released upon parole in less than four weeks 
from the time of his commitment, nor thereafter until the superin- 
tendent of such parental or truant school shall have become satisfied 
from the conduct of the child that, if paroled, he or she will attend regu- 
larly the public or private school to which he or she may be sent by 
his or her parents or guardian and shall so certify to the board of educa- 
tion. 

§ 148. It shall be the duty of the principal or other persons having 
charge of the school to which such child so released upon parole may be 
sent to report at least once each month to the superintendent of the 
parental or truant school, stating whether or not such child attends 
school regularly and obeys the rules and requirements of said school; 
and if such child so released upon parole shall be regular in his or her 
attendance at school and his or her conduct as a pupil shall be satisfac- 
tory for a period of one year from the date on which he or she was re- 
leased upon parole, he or she shall then be finally discharged from the 
parental or truant school, and shall not be recommitted thereto except on 
petition as hereinbefore provided. 

§ 149. In case any child released from said school upon parole, as 
hereinbefore provided, shall violate the conditions of his or her parole 
at any time within one year thereafter, he or she shall, upon the order 



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of the board of education, as hereinbefore provided, be taken back to 
such parental or truant school and shall not be again released upon parole 
within the period of three months from the date of such re-entering, 
and if he or she shall violate the conditions of a second parole he or she 
shall be recommitted to such parental or truant school and shall not be 
released therefrom on parole until he or she shall remain in said school 
at least one year. 

§ 150. In any case in which a child is found to be incorrigible and 
his or her influence in such school to be detrimental to the interests of 
the other pupils, the board of education may authorize the superinten- 
dent or any officer of the school to represent these facts to the circuit 
or county court by petition, and the court shall have authority to com- 
mit said child to some juvenile reformatory. 

§ 151. Boards of education in cities having a population of over 
25,000 and less than 100,000 may establish, maintain and operate a 
parental or truant school for the purposes hereinbefore specified, and in 
case of the establishment of such a school, the boards of education shall 
have like power in their respective cities as hereinbefore expressed: 
Provided, however, that no board of trustees or board of education under 
this section shall put this law into effect until submitted to a vote of the 
people and adopted by a majority vote at some general election. 

teacher's pension fund. 

§ 152. In every city in this State having a population exceeding 
100,000 inhabitants, there shall be elected a board of trustees to have 
the administration and control of a public school teachers' pension and 
retirement fund, to be created and maintained in the manner provided 
by this Act. Such board of trustees shall consist of nine members. The 
secretary of the board of education of such city shall be ex officio a mem- 
ber of said board of trustees; in addition thereto there shall be elected 
annually at the first meeting of the board of education in the month of 
October of each year two of its members to serve on said board of trus- 
tees ; and at the first election there shall be elected six members to said 
board of trustees from the teachers' force employed in said city; two 
for the term of one year, two for the term of two years and two for the 
term of three years. On the date of the first meeting of said board of 
education in the month of October of each year thereafter there shall 
in like manner be elected two members to said board of trustees, who 
shall hold their office for a term of three years. The election of the 
members of said board of trustees by the board of education, shall be by 
a majority vote in such manner as they, the board of education, shall 
provide. "The election of the members to said board of trustees by the 
teaching forces of such city shall be by ballot at an election held by the 
board of education, which shall conform as nearly as may be to the pro- 
visions of the law in relation to school elections, and each person being 
a member of the teaching force of such city, and a contributor to said 
pension and retirement fund shall be entitled to cast at such election, one 
vote for each trustee to be elected. Elections to fill vacancies may be 



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called by the board of education and held at the annual election : Pro- 
vided, however, that the board of education may fill vacancies occurring 
in the membership of said board of trustees elected from said board of 
education at any regular meeting of the board of education. 

§ 153. Such board of trustees shall have charge of any adminis- 
tration of the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund of 
such city, and shall have power to invest the same in such manner as 
it shall deem most beneficial to said fund, but in the same manner 
and subject to the same terms and conditions as township trustees are 
permitted to invest school funds under the law, and shall have power 
to make payments from said fund of pensions or annuities granted in 
pursuance of this Act; and shall from time to time make and establish 
such by-laws, rules and regulations for the administration of said fund, 
as they shall deem advisable and shall have power to employ such as- 
sistance and service as may, in their judgment be necessary for the 
proper enforcement of the provisions of this Act and carrying into 
effect valid by-laws, rules and regulations enacted by them, and they 
shall have power to fill any vacancies occurring in said board of trus- 
tees of members elected from the teaching force of said city, until the 
next annual election, when said vacancies shall be filled as provided by 
this Act. 

§ 154. The public school teachers' pension and retirement fund of 
such city shall consist of moneys paid into said fund by persons desir- 
ing the benefits thereof, under the provisions of this Act; of moneys 
received from donations, legacies, gifts, beouests or otherwise on ac- 
count of said fund, and of moneys paid into, said fund in pursuance of 
any law now in force or hereafter to be enacted. 

§ 155. Any person who shall be employed to teach in the public 
school of any such city, after this Act shall take effect, shall be entitled 
to the benefits of said fund upon complying with the provisions of this 
Act, and for the purposes of this Act such persons shall be divided into 
the following classes: 

First — Those who have taught five years or less. 

Second — Those who have taught more than five years and not more 
than ten years. 

Third — Those who have taught more than ten years and not more 
than fifteen years. 

Fourth — Those who have taught more than fifteen years. 

After this Act shall take effect, there shall be set apart from the 
salaries of all persons hereafter entering for the first time the employ 
of the board of education of such cities $5.00 per annum, while they 
remain in the first class; $10.00 per annum while they remain in the 
second class; $15.00 per annum while they remain in the third class, 
and $30.00 per annum while they remain in the fourth class, which 
amounts shall be deducted by the board of education in equal install- 
ments from their respective salaries at the regular times for the pay- 
ment thereof, and be paid into and constitute a part of the public 
school teachers' pension and retirement fund of such city. 

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§ 156. Teachers employed by the board of education of any such 
city, who shall become contributors to and beneficiaries of a public 
school teachers' pension and retirement fund, under any provisions of 
this Act, may count past service as a part of the period of twenty-five 
years hereinafter specified, by paying into said fund a sum equal to that 
which he or she would have contributed under the provisions of this Act, 
had he or she been a regular contributor to said fund, during; said 
period of past service, together with interest thereon at the rate of 4 
per cent per annum from the time such payments would have been made 
to the time such person shall by making such payment become entitled 
to the benefit of such past service. 

§ 156a. All persons who have heretofore been contributors to a 
public school teachers' pension and retirement fund of cities having a 
population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, under any law now in force 
but who have withdrawn from such participation, may, if they shall 
exercise the option on or before the first day of July in the year of our 
Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, renew their right to par- 
ticipation in a fund to be created in said city under the provisions of 
this Act, by paying into said fund the full amount of any moneys they 
may have withdrawn from such previous fund and the full amount they 
would have contributed had they not withdrawn therefrom together with 
interest thereon at the rate of 4 per cent per annum from the time such 
moneys were withdrawn and from the time such payments would have 
become due to the date of their acceptance of the provisions of this sec- 
tion; and thereafter such persons shall contribute to said fund upon the 
same terms as teachers who shall hereafter be employed and become 
contributors to and beneficiaries of said fund: Provided, however, that 
such persons who shall be re-employed by said board of education as 
such teachers on or after July 1, 1911, may, if they shall exercise such 
option within one year after such re-employment, renew their right to 
participation in such fund upon the same terms and conditions afore- 
said. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 156b. All teachers who are now in the service of the board of 
education of any such city, other than those described in the previous 
spction, may, if they shall exercise the option on or before the first day 
of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, 
become contributors to and beneficiaries of the public school teachers' 
pension and retirement fund created under the provisions of this Act, 
upon the same terms as, teachers who shall hereafter be employed and 
become contributors to and beneficiaries of said fund under section 
156a of this Act. (Added by an Act approved June 6, 1911.) 

§ 157. Such board of trustees shall have the power and it shall be 
its duty to pass a resolution declaring the maturity of service and right 
to the immediate benefits of said fund in favor of persons entitled to the 
benefits thereof in the following cases : 

First — When any such persons shall have taught in the public schools 
or rendered service therein for a period of twenty-five years within the 
meaning of this Act, 



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Second — When any contributor to the said fund shall have taught 
fifteen years in the public schools within the meaning of this Act and 
shall have been declared by three competent physicians, who have made 
a physical examination of the teacher, at the request of a majority of 
such board of trustees, to be suffering from a permanent disability: 
Provided, however, that neither said board of trustees nor said board of 
education shall declare any contributor entitled to the immediate bene- 
fits of said fund until he or she shall have taught in the public schools 
of such city three-fifths of the term of service of twenty-five or fifteen 
years, as the case may be ; and no person shall be entitled to the benefits 
of said fund until he or she shall have retired from service as a teacher 
in said city. 

§ 158. Each teacher so retired or retiring after twenty-five years of 
service shall thereafter be entitled to receive an annuity of $400.00, and 
each teacher so retired because of permanent disability after fifteen 
years of service shall receive as an annual pension such proportion of the 
full annuity of $400.00 as the sum contributed by such teacher so retired 
bears to the total contributions required for a full annuity. Said pen- 
sions and annuities shall be paid monthly during the school year by 
said board of trustees out of the fund created in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act in the manner provided by law for the payment 
of teachers' salaries. 

§ 159. The president and the secretary of said board of education 
shall certify monthly to the city treasurer all amounts deducted from 
the salaries of teachers, special teachers, principals and superintendents 
of schools in accordance with the provisions of this Act, which amounts, 
as well as all other moneys contributed to said fund, shall be set apart 
and held by said treasurer as a special fund for the purposes hereinbefore 
specified, subject to the order of said board of trustees herein created, 
and shall be paid out upon warrants signed by the president and secretary 
of said board of education, and countersigned by the president of the 
said board of trustees. 

§ 160. The city treasurer, ex officio, shall be the custodian of said 
pension fund, and shall secure and safely keep the same, subject to the 
control and direction of said board of trustees, and shall keep his books 
and accounts concerning such fund in such manner as may be prescribed 
by said board, and said books and accounts shall always be subject to the 
inspection of said board or any member thereof. Said city treasurer 
shall be liable on his official bond for the proper performance of his 
duties and the conservation of the fund created by this Act. Any legal 
proceedings which may he necessary for the enforcement of the provi- 
sions of this Act shall be brought by and in the name of the hoard of 
education for the use of the board of trustees of the public school 
teachers'' pension fund. 

§ 161. No teacher who has been, or who shall have been, elected by 
paid board of education, shall be removed or discharged, except for cause, 
upon written charges which shall, upon the teachers' written request, be 
investigated and determined by said board of education, whose action 
and decision in the matter shall be final. If at any time a teacher who 



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is willing to continue is not reemployed or is discharged before the time 
he or she would, under the provisions of this Act, be entitled to a pen- 
sion, then such teacher shall be paid back at once the money he or she 
may have contributed under this law. Any teacher who shall retire 
•voluntarily from the service, prior to entering the aforesaid fourth class, 
shall receive a refund of one-half of the money he or she shall have 
contributed under this law. 

§ 162. All persons who shall be employed as teachers by the board 
of education of any such city shall, by such employment, accept the 
provisions of this Act, and thereupon become contributors to said 
pension fund in accordance with the terms thereof. And the provisions 
of this Act shall become a part of and enter into any such contract of 
employment. 

§ 163. All pensions or annuities granted under the provisions of 
this Act and every portion thereof shall be exempt from attachment or 
garnishment process and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained 
or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or proceedings 
whatsoever issued out of or by any court of this State for the payment 
or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, claim, damage, demand 
or judgment against any pensioner hereunder, and no annuitant or 
pensioner shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension 
or annuity or any part thereof either by way of mortgage or otherwise. 

§ 164. Neither the treasurer nor any other officer having the custody 
of public school funds of any city having a population exceeding 100,000 
inhabitants shall be entitled to retain any interest accruing thereon or 
any part thereof, but such interest shall accrue and inure to the benefit 
of such school funds respectively, become a part thereof and be paid 
into the city treasury, subject to the purposes of this Act. 

§ 165. The board of education of any such city, as to such funds 
raised by taxation, levied by such city for school purposes, whether the 
same be for educational purposes or for building purposes, shall annually 
set aside all interest so added to such funds and contribute the same 
to the public school teachers' and public school employes' pension and 
retirement funds now created or existing, or such as may be hereafter 
created pursuant to any law. The amount of such interest so contri- 
buted, however, shall not exceed in any year 1 per cent of the sums so 
levied for such purposes. 

NORMAL SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 166. There shall be awarded annually to each school township, or 
fractional township, a scholarship which shall entitle the holder thereof 
to gratuitous instruction in any State normal school, for a period of 
four years: Provided, lioivevcr, that any township having a population 
exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall be entitled to five 
scholarships. 

§ 167. The county superintendent shall receive and register the names 
of all applicants for such scholarships, and shall hold an examination, 
or cause an examination to be held, in each township, for the benefit 



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of graduates of the eighth grade: Provided, however, that when a 
township is divided by a county line, the county superintendent in whose 
county the sixteenth section is situated shall have charge of the exami- 
nation in such township. 

§ 168. All examinations for normal school scholarships shall be 
held on any Saturday between the first day of March and the fifteenth 
day of May in each year, according to rules and regulations prescribed 
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the pupil found to 
possess the highest qualifications shall be entitled to such scholarship: 
Provided, however, that such pupil shall be a resident of the township 
in which such examination is held: And, provided, further, that when 
no application is received from any township, the county superintendent 
shall assign the pupil found to possess the next highest qualification to 
that township. 

§ 169. The county superintendent shall certify the names and 
addresses of all successful applicants, with the number and range of the 
township to which each pupil is accredited, to the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, who shall issue to each pupil a certificate of scholar- 
ship, which shall- be accepted by the authorities of any State normal 
school in lieu of any entrance examination, and shall exempt the holder 
thereof from the payment of tuition, or any term, matriculation, or 
incidental fee whatsoever. 

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 170. There shall be awarded, annually, to each county, one univer- 
sity scholarship, which shall entitle the holder thereof to gratuitous 
instruction in the University of Illinois for a period of four years. 

§ 171. The county superintendent shall receive and register the 
names of all applicants for such scholarships, and shall hold an exami- 
nation on the first Saturday of June of each year, according to rules 
and regulations prescribed by the president of the University, and the 
student found to possess the highest qualifications shall be entitled to 
such scholarship: Provided, however, that every applicant shall be at 
least 16 years of age, and a resident of the county in which such 
examination is held: And, provided, further, that no student who has 
attended the University of Illinois shall be eligible to such examination. 

§172. The county superintendent shall return to the president of 
the University, within ten days after such examination, a list of the 
names of all applicants examined, the grades obtained, together with 
the examination papers submitted by them; and the president of the 
University shall issue to the successful applicant a certificate of scholar- 
ship as directed by the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, that 
in case no return is made from a county, the president of the University 
may assign to that county from some other county the student found 
to possess the next highest qualifications. 

§ 173. In addition to the scholarships provided for in section 170, 
each member of the General Assembly is authorized to nominate and 
appoint, annually, one person of school age and otherwise eligible, from 
his district, who shall, by virtue of his appointment, receive a certificate 
of scholarship in the University. Each member of the General Assembly 



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shall file with the president of the University on or before the first 
Saturday in June, the name and address of the student nominated by 
him to receive such scholarship. The candidate for such scholarship 
shall present himself for examination before the county superintendent 
in the county where such student resides, at the time stated in section 
171 for the competitive examination. The president of the University 
shall prescribe the rules and regulations governing such examination: 
Provided, however, that in case the person named fails to pass the 
required examination for admission, the president of the University 
shall at once notify the member making the appointment, who may 
name another person for such scholarship: And, provided, further, that 
if the member of the General Assembly shall so elect, the scholarship 
under his control may be awarded by competitive examination conducted 
under like rules as prescribed in section 171 of this Act. 

§ 174. Any University scholarship issued under the provisions of 
this Act shall exempt the holder from the payment of tuition, or any 
matriculation, term or incidental fee whatsoever, except for purchase of 
laboratory supplies and similar fees for supplies and materials : Provided, 
however, that such student shall be subject to all examinations, rules 
and requirements of the board of trustees and faculty, except as herein 
directed: And, provided, further, that the privileges of these scholar- 
ships shall not be available in the professional schools and colleges of 
the University: And, provided, further, that this Act shall not be con- 
strued to prohibit the board of trustees from granting other scholarships. 

§ 175. Any student holding a University scholarship, who shall 
make it appear to the satisfaction of the president of the University that 
he requires leave of absence for the purpose of earning funds to defray 
his expenses while in attendance, may be granted such leave of absence, 
and may be allowed a period not to exceed six years to complete his 
course at the University. 

TEACHERS. 

§ 176. No one shall be authorized or employed to teach in the com- 
mon schools of this State, or shall receive, for teaching, any part of 
any public school fund, who is not at least 18 years of age, if a man, 
or 17 years of age, if a woman, and who does not hold at the time he 
enters upon his duties a certificate of qualification issued by the county 
superintendent of schools or the Superintendent of Public Instruction: 
Provided, however, that in any county in which a county normal school 
is established, under the control of a county board of education, the 
diplomas of graduates in said normal school shall, when directed by said 
board, be taken by the county superintendent as sufficient evidence of 
qualification to entitle the holder to a first grade certificate if presented 
within two years from such graduation. 

§ 177. Certificates of qualification issued by the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction shall be valid in every district in the State during 
the good behavior of the holder. Such certificates shall be granted only 
upon a public examination, complete in itself, under such regulations 
and by such examiners as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 



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prescribe and appoint. The holder of any State certificate, while he 
continues to teach, shall, annually, before entering upon his duties as 
teacher, present his certificate to the county superintendent for registra- 
tion. A fee of one dollar shall be charged therefor and covered into 
the institute fund. 

§ 178. Certificates of qualification granted by the county superin- 
tendent shall be of two grades : 

A certificate of the first grade shall be valid in the county for two 
years and shall certify that the person to whom such certificate is issued 
is of good character and qualified to teach orthography, reading in Eng- 
lish, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, 
civics, the elements of the natural sciences, the history of the United 
States, the history of Illinois, physiology and the laws of health. 

A certificate of the second grade shall be valid for one year, and shall 
certify that the person to whom such certificate is issued is of good char- 
acter and is qualified to teach orthography, reading in English, pen- 
manship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, civics, the 
history of the United States and the history of Illinois. 

Such certificates may be in the following form, to-wit : 

, Illinois, , 1 . . . 

The undersigned having examined in orthography, 

reading in English, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geog- 
raphy, civics, the history of the United States, the history of Illinois, and 

methods of teaching, and being satisfied that is of good 

character, hereby certifies that qualifications in these 

branches are such as to entitle to this certificate, being of the 

grade, and valid in this county for year from 

the date hereof, renewable at the option of the county superintendent by his 
endorsement hereon. 

Given under my hand and seal at the date aforesaid. 

A B 

County Superintendent of Schools. 

Teachers of music, drawing, penmanship, bookkeeping, German, or any 
other special study, exclusively, shall not be required to be examined 
except in reference to such special study, and in such cases it shall not 
be lawful to employ such teachers to teach any branch of study except 
such as they have been examined upon and which shall be stated in such 
certificates. The county superintendent may, in his option, renew cer- 
tificates at their expiration by his endorsement thereon, and may revoke 
a certificate at any time for immorality, incompetency or other just 
cause. 

§ 179. Every school established under the provisions of this Act shall 
be for instruction in the branches of education prescribed in the qualifi- 
cations for teachers, and in such other branches, including vocal music 
and drawing, as the directors, or the voters of the district at the annual 
election of directors may prescribe. 

§ 180. Examinations for teachers' certificates shall be held by the 
county superintendent quarterly, and oftener, if necessary, on such days 
and in such places as will accommodate the greatest number of persons 
desiring such examination. Notice of such examinations shall be pub- 



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lished a sufficient length of time in at least one newspaper of general 
circulation. A fee of one dollar shall be charged for the examination 
and also for the renewal of a certificate. 

§ 181. The county superintendent shall hold an annual institute, 
not fewer than five days, for the instruction of teachers and those who 
may desire to teach. With the concurrence of the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction he shall employ such assistance as may be necessary 
to conduct the institute. Two or more adjoining counties may hold an 
institute together. At every institute instruction shall be free to holders 
of certificates good in the county or in any of the counties holding the 
institute, and to those who have paid an examination fee and failed to 
receive a certificate. All others attending shall be required to pay a 
registration fee of one dollar. 

§ 182. All examination and registration fees, and fees for renewals, 
shall be transmitted monthly to the county treasurer, with a list of 
the names of the persons paying such fees. Such fund shall constitute 
the institute fund, and shall be paid out only upon the order of the 
county superintendent, to defray the expenses of teachers' institutes. 
When the institute fund in any county exceeds the average annual cost 
of the teachers' institute for the next preceding three years, such excess 
may be drawn upon by the county superintendent of schools for the pur- 
pose of defraying the expense of any general meeting of the teachers of 
the county. 

§ 183. Five days in any school year, spent by a teacher, during 
term time, in attendance upon a teachers' institute, held under the 
direction of the county superintendent of schools, shall be considered 
time lawfully expended in the service of the district, and no deduction 
of wages shall be made for such attendance. It shall be the duty of 
the school directors to close the schools for such institute. 

§ 184. It shall be the duty of every teacher to see that the school 
property of the district, under his care and control, is not unnecessarily 
damaged or destroyed^ No teacher shall be paid any part of the school 
funds unless he shall have furnished schedules, when required by law, 
and shall have satisfactorily accounted for all books, apparatus and other 
property belonging to the district. 

§ 185. Teachers shall keep daily registers, which shall exhibit the 
name, age and attendance of each pupil, the dav of the week, the month 
and the year. Registers shall be in the following form, the absence of 
each scholar being indicated by a mark, the presence by a blank, to-wit : 



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Such registers shall be furnished to the teachers by the school directors, 
and each teacher shall, at the end of his term of school, return his 
register to the clerk of the school board of the district. No teacher shall 
be paid any part of the school funds unless he shall have accurately kept 
and returned the register aforesaid. 

§ 186. In all districts controlled by a board of directors, teachers 
shall make schedules of the names of all pupils attending school, in the 
form prescribed by this Act, and when pupils reside in two or more 
districts, townships or counties, separate schedules shall be kept for 
each district, township or county. Boards of education may require 
teachers to make schedules, or statements, certifying the number of days' 
attendance for each month, as shown by their registers, which shall be 
certified by the board of education, and be subject to the same require- 
ments as schedules. Schedules shall be certified by the teacher, and shall 
be in the following form, to-wit : 

Schedule of a school taught by , in 

district No , in the county of , in the 

State of Illinois. Names and ages of pupils residing in district No. , 

county, who have attended school during 

the time beginning the day of , 1 , 

during which time the school was in session school 

days. 



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I hereby certify that the foregoing schedule is correct, to the best of 
my knowledge and belief. 

A B 

Teacher. 
§ 187. The schedule, or schedules, shall be delivered to one of the 
directors, who shall, if requested, give the teacher a receipt for the 
same. It shall be the duly of the director to examine carefully such 
schedule, or schedules, with ai hast one other director, and correct any 
errors, and if such schedule has been made according to hiw, they shall 
certify to the same in the following form, io-wil : 



State of Illinois, 



County. 

We, the undersigned, directors of district No in 

county, certify that we have carefully examined the foregoing schedule and 
find it to be correct, and thafr the school was conducted according to law; 

that the teacher is paid according to contract dollars per ; 

the sum of dollars is now due for services for 

the month ending ; that the teacher has a legal certificate 

of grade, and that the property of said district 

in charge of such teacher has been satisfactorily accounted for. 

Signed this clay of , 1 . . . 



Directors. 

§ 188. The school month shall be the same as the calendar month. 
But a teacher shall not be required to teach on Saturdays or legal school 
holidays, which are the first day of January, the fourth day of July, the 
twenty-fifth day of December, and any day appointed by the President 
or Governor as a day of fast or thanksgiving, and no deduction shall 
be made from the time or compensation of a teacher on account of such 
days. 



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REVENUE. 



§ 189. For the purpose of establishing and supporting free schools 
for not less than six nor more than nine months in each year, and 
defraying all the expenses of the same of every description; for the 
purpose of repairing and improving school houses, of procuring furni- 
ture, fuel, libraries and apparatus, and for all other necessary incidental 
expenses in each district, village or city, the directors of such district 
and the authorities of such village or city shall be authorized to levy 
a tax annually upon all the taxable property of the district, village or 
city not to exceed one and one-half per cent for educational and one 
and one-half per cent for building purposes, the valuation to be ascer- 
tained by the last assessment for State and county taxes: Provided, 
that the term incidental expenses herein used shall not include any 
sum expended or obligation incurred for the improvement, repair or 
benefit of the school buildings and property, but all such sums and 
obligations shall be paid from that portion of the tax levied for building 
purposes. No election or petition shall be necessary to authorize the 
levy of a tax for the ordinary repair and improvement of school buildings 
or grounds or for the payment of any special tax or special assessment 
levied upon such property. 

§ 190. The board of directors or board of education of each district 
shall ascertain, as near as practicable, annually, how much money must 
be raised by special tax for educational and for building purposes for 
the next ensuing year. Such amounts shall be certified and returned 
to the township treasurer on or before the first Tuesday in August, 
annually. The certificate shall be signed by the president and clerk, or 
secretary, as the case may require, and may be in the following form, 
to-wit : 

CERTIFICATE OF LEVY. 

We hereby certify that we require the sum of dollars, 

to be levied as a special tax for educational purposes, and the sum of 

dollars to be levied as a special tax for building purposes, on the equalized 
assessed value of the taxable property of our district, for the year 1. . . 

Signed this day of , 1 . . . 

A B President, 

C D Clerk. 

District No , County. 

The township treasurer shall return the certificate to the county clerk, 
on or before the second Monday of August. A failure by the school 
board to file the certificate, or of the treasurer to return it to the county 
clerk in the time required, shall not vitiate the assessment. 

§ 191. When a district lies partly in two or more counties the direct- 
ors shall ascertain, as near as practicable, the amount to be raised by 
special tax for educational and building purposes, and shall prepare a 
certificate for each county in which such district may lie, and deliver 
the certificates to the township treasurer who receives the tax money 
of such district, who shall return a certificate to each of the county clerks 
of the counties in which a part of such district is situated. On the first 



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Monday of October, annually, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, 
the county clerk of each of such counties shall ascertain the total equal- 
ized valuation of all the taxable property in that part of such district 
as shall lie in his county, and certify the amount thereof to the county 
clerk of each of the other counties in which such district may lie; and 
from the aggregate of such equalized valuation, and from the certificate 
of the amount so required to be levied, such clerks shall ascertain the 
rate per cent required to produce in such district the amount of such 
levy, and at that rate shall extend the special tax to be levied for educa- 
tional and building purposes in that part of such district lying in his 
respective county. 

§ 192. It shall be the duty of assessors, when making assessments 
of personal property, to designate the number of the school district in 
which the person assessed resides. Such designation shall be made by 
writing the number of the district opposite each person's assessment of 
personal property in the assessment roll returned by the assessor to the 
county clerk. The officers preparing blank books and notices for the 
use of assessors shall provide columns and blanks, so that the number of 
the school district may be designated. 

§ 193. On or before the first day of April next after the delivery 
of the tax books containing the computation and levy of the taxes, or 
as soon thereafter as the treasurer shall present the certificate of the 
amount of the tax, and make a demand therefor, the collector shall pay 
to the treasurer the full amount of the tax certified by the county clerk, 
or in case any part remains uncollected, the collector shall, in addition 
to the amount collected, deliver to the treasurer a statement of the 
amount of uncollected taxes for each district of the township, taking his 
receipt therefor, which receipt shall be evidence in favor of the collector 
as against the treasurer. 

§ 194. If any collector shall fail to pay the taxes or any part there- 
of, the treasurer, or other authorized person, may proceed against him 
and his securities in an action of debt upon his official bond in any 
court of competent jurisdiction. The collector so in default shall pay 
12 per cent on the amount due, to be assessed as damages, which shall 
be included in the judgment rendered against him. If he can show that 
any part of the taxes could not be collected by law, he shall not be liable 
for such taxes until he has collected, or may be able to collect them. 

BONDS. 

§ 195. For the purpose of building or repairing school houses or 
purchasing or improving school sites, the directors of any school dis- 
trict, when authorized by a majority of the votes cast at an election held 
for that purpose, may borrow money ; and, as evidence of such indebted- 
ness, may issue bonds signed by at least two directors, in denominations 
of not less than $100.00, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 
7 per cent per annum. 

§ 196. All bonds issued by virtue of this Act, before being issued, 
negotiated and sold, shall be registered, numbered and countersigned by 



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the treasurer who receives the taxes of the district. Such registration 
shall be made in a book provided for that purpose, in which shall be 
entered the record of the election authorizing the directors to borrow 
money, and a description of the bonds issued, including the number, 
date, to whom issued, amount, rate of interest and when due. 

§ 197. All moneys borrowed under the authority of this Act shall 
be paid to the treasurer of the township wherein the bonds issued there- 
for are required to be registered. Upon receiving such moneys, the 
treasurer shall deliver the bond or bonds issued therefor to the person 
or persons entitled to receive them, and shall credit the funds received 
to the district issuing the bonds. The treasurer shall record the exact 
amount received for each and every bond issued. When any such bonds 
are paid, the treasurer shall cancel the same and shall enter, against the 

record of such bonds, the words "paid and cancelled the day 

of , 1 . . .," filling the blanks with the day, month 

and year corresponding to the date of such payment. 

§ 198. When it is desired to hold an election for the purpose of 
borrowing money, the directors of the district shall give at least ten 
days' notice of the election, by posting notices in at least three of the 
most public places in the district. Such notices shall specify the place 
where such election is to be held, the time of opening and closing the 
polls, and the question to be voted upon, which notice may be in the 
following form, to-wit: 

NOTICE OF ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on day of > 

1. . ., an election will be held at school district No 

in County, Illinois, for the purpose of voting "for" or 

"against" the proposition to issue bonds of district No to the 

amount of dollars due (here insert the times of payment, 

giving the amount falling due in each year, if the bonds mature at different 

days), which bonds are to bear interest at the rate of per cent per 

annum, payable annually. The polls will be opened at 

o'clock, m., and closed at o'clock, ....m. 

Dated this day of , 1 • • • 

A B President, 

C D Clerk. 

§ 199. Two of the directors shall act as judges of the election and 
one as clerk. In case a director shall fail to attend or to act at such 
election, the legal voters assembled shall choose from their number, at 
the time of opening the polls, some person to act as judge or clerk, as 
the case may be. The judges and clerk shall take and subscribe the oath 
required of judges and clerks of an election held for State and county 
officers. All votes shall be by ballot. 

§ 200. Within ten days after the election the judges shall cause the 
poll books to be returned to the township treasurer who is required to 
register such bonds, with a certificate thereon showing the result of the 
election, which poll book shall be filed and kept by the treasurer, and 
shall be evidence of such election. 

§ 201. When a school district has issued bonds, or other evidence 
of indebtedness, for any purposes which are binding and subsisting legal 



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obligations, and remaining outstanding, the directors of such school dis- 
trict may, upon the surrender of any such bonds or other evidences of 
indebtedness, issue in lieu thereof, to the holders or owners of the same, 
or to other persons for money with which to pay the same, new bonds 
or other evidences of indebtedness, according to the provisions of this 
Act. 

COUNTY CLERK. 

§ 202. Whenever the returns of an election for trustees of schools 
are made to the county clerk, it shall be his duty to furnish to the county 
superintendent of schools, within ten days after such returns have been 
made, the names of the trustees so returned to him, and to specify the 
townships in which they have been elected. 

§ 203. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to furnish the directors 
of any school district, upon request, a certificate showing the last ascer- 
tained equalized value of the taxable property of such district. 

§ 204. When a school district lies partly in two or more counties, it 
shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county in which any part 
of such district lies to furnish, upon request, to the directors of such 
district, a certificate showing the last ascertained equalized value of the 
taxable property in that part of such district lying in such county. 

§ 205. It shall be the duty of the county clerk, when making oul 
the tax books for the collector, to compute each taxable person's tax 
in each school district upon the total amount of taxable property as 
equalized by the State Board of Equalization for that year, Lying and 
being in such district, whether belonging to residents or nonresidents, 
and also upon each and every tract of land, the larger part of which lies 
in such district. Such computation shall be made so as to realize the 
amount of money required to be raised in such district, as shown and 
set forth in the certificate of tax levy, made out by the directors of such 
district, and filed with the township treasurer, as required by this Act. 
The said county clerk shall cause each person's tax. so computed, to lie 
set upon the tax book to be delivered to the collector for that year, in a 
separate column against each taxpayer's name, or parcel of taxable prop- 
erty, as it appears in said collector's books, to be collected in the same 
manner, and at the same time, and by the same person, as State and 
county taxes are collected. He shall number the school districts on the 
maps in his office to correspond with the numbers of districts as returned 
to him by the countv superintendent of schools, and in making up the 
tax books to be delivered to the collector of taxes, the county clerk 
shall copy into such tax books the number of the school district set 
opposite to each person's assessment of personal propertv by the assessor 
making the assessment of such person, and shall extend the school tax 
on each person's assessment of personal property, according to the rate 
required by the amount designated by the directors of the school district 
in which such person resides, as shown by the certificate of tax levy. The 
computation of each person's tax and the levy made by the clerk shall 
be final and conclusive. The rate shall be uniform, and shall not 
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The said county clerk, before delivering the tax book to the collector, 
shall make out and send by mail to each township treasurer of the 
county a certificate of the amount due each district or fraction of a 
district in his township, from the tax so levied and placed upon the 
tax books. 

§ 206. The county clerk shall record and preserve the report of the 
county superintendent made to the county board at the first regular term 
of such board in each year relating to the sale of school lands, the 
amount of money received, paid, loaned out and on hand, belonging to 
each township fund in his control, and the statement copied from the 
loan book of such county superintendent, showing all the facts in regard 
to loans which are required to be stated in the loan book. 

THE COUNTY BOAED. 

§ 207. It shall be the duty of the county board of each county of 
the State: 

First — To provide for the county superintendent of schools a suitable 
office with necessary furniture and office supplies, as is done in the case 
of other county officers. 

Second — To examine and approve or reject the report of the county 
superintendents of schools made to such board. 

Third — To audit at the regular meeting in September, and as near 
quarterly thereafter as such board may have regular or special meetings, 
the itemized bills of the county superintendent of schools for the expense 
of his office. 

Fourth — To authorize the county superintendent of schools to employ 
such assistants as he needs for the full discharge of his duties, and to 
fix the compensation thereof, which compensation shall be paid out of 
the county treasury. 

Fifth — To examine the financial statements of the county superin- 
tendent of schools required by section 11 of this Act and compare the 
same with vouchers, and the county board, or so many of them as may 
be present at the meeting of the board, shall be liable individually to the 
fund injured and to the securities of the county superintendent, in case 
judgment be recovered of the said securities, for all damages occasioned 
by neglect of the duties, or any of them, required of the board by this 
section: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be con- 
strued to exempt the securities, but they shall remain liable to the fund 
injured the same as if the members of the county board were not liable 
to them for neglect of their duty. 

§ 208. The county board of each county of this State shall have 
power : 

First — To approve the bond of the county superintendent of schools, 
and to increase the penalty of such bond if, in the judgment of the 
county board, such penalty should be so increased. 

Second — To require the county superintendent of schools, after notice 
given, to execute a new bond, conditioned and approved as the first 



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bond, whenever in the discretion of the county board such new bond is 
necessary: Provided, however, that the execution of such new bond 
shall not affect the old bond or the liability of the security thereof. 

Third — To require the county superintendent of schools to make the 
reports to such board provided for by law, and to remove him from office 
in case of neglect or refusal so to do, or for any palpable violation of 
law or omission of duty. 

§ 209. When the office of county superintendent of schools shall 
become vacant, the county board shall fill the vacancy by appointment. If 
by reason of a tie upon the vote to fill such vacancy, or from any other 
cause, the vacancy shall not be filled by the county board within thirty 
days at the time it occurs, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county 
board to summon the county judge of the county in which the vacancy 
exists to meet with the county board at a time and place designated by 
the clerk, of which meeting the members of the county board shall have 
notice; and the county board and county judge, when so notified, shall 
meet at the time and place designated, at which meeting the county judge 
shall preside, and in case of a tie he shall give the casting vote. The 
clerk shall notify the person so selected of his appointment. 

SCHOOL FUND. 

§ 210. The common school fund of this State shall consist, until 
otherwise provided by law, of the proceeds of a two-mill tax levied 
annually upon each dollar of the equalized assessed value of all the 
property in the State ; the interest on the school fund proper, which fund 
is 3 per cent upon the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the 
State, one-sixth part excepted; and the interest on the surplus revenue 
distributed by Act of Congress and made part of the common school fund 
by Act of the Legislature, March 4, 1837. The interest on the school 
fund proper and the surplus revenue shall be paid by the State annually 
at the rate of 6 per cent, and shall be distributed as provided by law. 

§ 211. On the first Monday in January, annually, the Auditor of 
Public Accounts shall apportion to each county the common school 
fund, in proportion to the number of persons in each county under the 
age of 21 years, as ascertained from the next preceding State or federal 
census, and shall issue an order upon the county collector to pay to 
the county superintendent of schools the amount of such order out of 
the first funds collected by him and not -otherwise appropriated by law, 
and take the county superintendent's receipt for the same. 

§ 212. The orders issued by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the 
common school fund shall be received by the State Treasurer in payment 
of amounts due the State from county collectors. On presentation of 
such orders the Auditor shall issue his warrants to the treasurer on the 
school fund for the amount of the school fund tax orders, and on the 
revenue fund for the amount of the orders for interest on the school 
fund proper and the surplus revenue. 

§ 213. If a collector shall fail or refuse to pay the amount of an 
auditor's order, or any part thereof, by the first day of March, annually, 
or as soon thereafter as it may be presented, the county superintendent 



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shall begin an action for debt against the collector and his securities in 
any court having competent jurisdiction, and unless it shall appear to 
the satisfaction of the court that on the first day of March, or on the 
day of presentation of payment thereafter, the collector had not collected 
funds sufficient to pay such order. ir.tfiTprt at the rate of 12 per cent 
per annum upon the amount due shall be assessed as damages and 
included in the judgment against the collector. 

§ 214. On or before the 30th day of September of each year the 
county collectors, county superintendents of schools, township collectors, 
and all other persons paying money into the hands of school treasurers 
for school purposes, shall notify in writing the presidents of school 
trustees and the clerks of school directors of the amount paid into the 
treasurer's hands and the date of payment. 

§ 215. The county superintendent of schools shall apportion and 
distribute, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, the principal of the county fund to the townships 
and parts of townships in his county, according to the number of persons 
under 21 years of age returned to him. The principal of the county 
fund so distributed shall be added to the principal of the township fund 
of the townships and parts of townships in his county. The interest, 
rents, issues and profits, arising and accruing from the principal of 
the county fund shall be distributed to the townships and parts of town- 
ships in his county, as required by the provisions of this Act. 

§ 216. All bonds, notes, mortgages, moneys and effects which have 
accrued or may accrue from the sale of the sixteenth section of the 
common school lands of any township, or from the sale of any real 
estate or other property taken on any judgment or for any debt due to the 
principal of any township fund, and all other funds of every description 
which have been or may be carried to and made part of the principal of 
any township fund, shall forever constitute the principal of the township 
fund; and no part thereof shall ever be distributed or expended for 
any purpose whatever, but shall be loaned and held to use, rent or 
profit, as provided by law. The interest, rents, issues and profits arising 
and accruing from the principal of any township fund shall be distrib- 
uted in the manner and at the times provided by this Act ; nor shall any 
part of such interest, rents, issues and profits be carried to the principal 
of any township fund, unless it shall appear on the first Monday in 
October in any year that there is rent, interest, issues, profits or other 
funds not required for distribution. In such case the amount not 
required for distribution may, in the discretion of the trustees of schools, 
be added to the principal of the township fund and loaned as such. 

SCHOOL LANDS. 

§ 217. Section 16 in every township, and the sections and parts 
of sections granted in lieu of all or part of such section, and also the 
lands granted for the use of schools to the inhabitants of fractional 
townships in which there is no section 16, or in case such section shall 
not contain the proper proportion for the use of schools in such frac- 

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tional townships, shall be held as common school lands; and the pro- 
visions of this Act referring to common school lands shall be deemed 
to apply to them. 

§ 218. All the business of a township, relating to common school 
lands shall be transacted in the county which contains all or the greater 
portion of such lands. 

§ 219. The trustees of schools in townships in which section 16, 
or other lands granted in lieu thereof, remain unsold, or which has title 
to any other school lands whatsoever, may rent or lease the same for an 
annual rent to be paid in money. The contract made by the president 
and clerk, under the direction of the trustees of schools, with the lessee 
or lessees, for the rent or lease of such lands, shall be in writing and shall 
be filed with the records of the board, and a copy transmitted to the 
county superintendent. In case of default in the payment of the rent, 
the trustees shall at once proceed to collect the same by distress, or 
otherwise, as may be provided by law for the collection of rents by land- 
lords. No lease taken under the provisions of this Act shall be for a 
longer period than five years, except when such lands are leased for the 
purpose of having permanent improvements made thereon, as in cities 
and villages. The provisions of this section shall not apply to cities 
having a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants. 

§ 220. The trustees of schools of any township are hereby authorized 
to sell and convey to any railroad company a right of way across any 
school lands of such township, and necessary depot grounds. 

§ 221. If any person shall, without being duly authorized, cut, fell, 
box, bore, destroy or carry away any tree, sapling or log standing or 
being upon any school lands, such person shall forfeit and pay, for every 
tree, sapling, or log so felled, boxed, bored, destroyed or carried away, 
the sum of eight dollars, which penalty shall be recovered with costs of 
suit, by action of debt or assumpsit, before any justice of the peace, 
or in the county or circuit court, either in the corporate name of the 
board of trustees of the township to which the land belongs, or by qui 
tarn action in the name of any person who will first sue for the same. 
One-half of the judgment secured in such action shall go to the person 
suing and the other half to the township. When two or more persons 
shall be concerned in the same trespass, they shall be jointly and sever- 
ally liable for the penalty herein imposed. 

§ 222. Every trespasser upon common school lands shall be liable 
to indictment, and, upon conviction, shall be fined three times the 
amount of the injury occasioned by the trespass, and shall stand com- 
mitted as in other cases of misdemeanor. 

§ 223. All penalties and fines collected under the provisions of the 
two preceding sections shall be paid to the township treasurer and be 
added to the principal of the township fund. 

§ 224. When the inhabitants of any township shall desire the sale 
of the common school lands of such township, they shall present to the 
county superintendent of the countv in which the school lands of the 
township or the greater part thereof lie, a petition for their sale. Such 
petition shall be signed by at least two-thirds of the legal voters of the 



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township. The petition must be signed in the presence of at least two 
adult citizens of the township, after the true meaning and purpose there- 
of have been explained; and an affidavit must be affixed thereto by the 
two citizens witnessing the signing, which affidavit shall state the num- 
ber of inhabitants in the township 21 years of age and over, and the 
petition so verified shall be delivered to the county superintendent for 
his action thereon. In townships having a population of more than 
10,000 inhabitants, such petition shall be signed by at least one-tenth 
of the legal voters of the township, and delivered to the county superin- 
tendent at least fifteen days preceding the regular election of trustees, 
or the date of a special election which may be called for such purpose; 
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the county superintendent to notify 
the voters of such township that an election for or against the proposi- 
tion to sell common school lands of the township, or a portion thereof, 
will be held at the next regular election of trustees, or at a special elec- 
tion called for that purpose, by posting notices of such election in at 
least ten of the most public places throughout such township, for at 
least ten days before the date of such regular or special election, which 
notice may be in the following form, to-wit: 

ELECTION FOR SALE OF COMMON SCHOOL LANDS. 

Notice is hereby given that on the day of , 

1 . . . , an election will be held at for the purpose of 

voting "for" or "against" the proposition to sell common school lands of 
the township, to-wit: (here insert description of the lands). The polls will 

be opened at o'clock, ....m., and closed at o'clock, ....m. 

A B 

County Superintendent. 

The ballots of such election shall be received and canvassed as in 
other elections provided for in this Act, and returns of the results thereof 
made to the county superintendent, and if two-thirds of the vote upon 
such proposition shall have been cast in favor of the sale, the county 
superintendent shall act thereon. No section shall be sold in any town- 
ship containing fewer than 200 inhabitants; and common school lands 
in fractional townships may be sold when the number of inhabitants 
and the number of acres are in, or above, a ratio of 200 to 640, but not 
before. 

§ 225. Any fractional townshin not having the requisite number of 
inhabitants to petition for the sale of school lands, which has not hereto- 
fore been united with any township for school purposes, and which does 
not contain a sufficient number of inhabitants to maintain a free school, 
is hereby attached for school purposes, to the adjacent congressional 
township having the longest territorial line bordering on such fractional 
township, and all the provisions of this Act shall apply to such united 
townships the same as though they were one and the same township. 

§ 226. When the petition and affidavits are delivered to the county 
superintendent, he shall notify the trustees of the township, who shall 
immediately divide the land into tracts or lots, of such form and quan- 
tity as will produce the largest sum of money, and cause a plat of the 
same to be made with each lot numbered and defined so that its boun- 
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§ 227. In subdividing common school lands, no lot shall contain 
more than eighty acres, and the division may be into town or village 
lots, with roads, streets or alleys between them and through the same; 
and all such divisions are hereby declared legal and all such roads, 
streets and alleys, public highways. 

§ 228. After the school lands have been subdivided and platted, 
the trustees of schools shall fix the value of each lot, certify to the cor- 
rectness of the plat, stating in the certificate the value of each lot, and 
describing it so that it may be identified ; which plat and certificate shall 
be delivered to the county superintendent, and shall govern him in adver- 
tising and selling such lands. 

§ 229. Upon receipt of the plat and certificate of valuation the 
county superintendent shall advertise the sale of such land in lots, as 
divided and platted, by posting notice thereof in at least six public 
places in the county forty days before the day of sale, describing the 
land and stating the time, place and terms of sale. Such notice shall 
also be printed each week for four weeks before the day of sale in a 
newspaper published in the county, and shall be in the following form, 
to-wit : 

NOTICE OF SALE. 

Notice is hereby given that on the day of , 1 . . . , 

between the hours of 10:00 o'clock, a. m., and 6:00, p. m., the undersigned, 

superintendent of schools of county, will sell at public sale 

to the highest bidder, at the door of the court house in 

(or on the premises), the following described real estate, 

the same being a part of the school lands of township No range No. 

. .^ , as divided, and platted by the trustees of schools of said township, to- 
wit: (Here insert full and complete- description of said premises.) Said 
lands will be sold for cash in hand, with the privilege to any purchaser of 
borrowing from the undersigned the whole or part of the payment of his bid, 
for not less than one nor more than five years, upon his paying interest and 
giving security, as required in case of a loan obtained from the township fund. 

Dated this day of , 1 . . . 

A B 

County Superintendent. 

§ 230. Upon the day of sale, the county superintendent shall pro- 
ceed to make sales as follows : He shall begin at the lowest numbered 
lot and proceed regularly to the highest numbered, until they are all 
sold or offered. No lot shall be sold for less than its valuation. The 
sale may continue from day to day. Each lot shall be sold separately, 
and offered long enough to enable any person present to bid who may 
desire to do so. 

§ 231. At the close of each day's sale the purchasers shall each 
pay or secure the payment of the purchase money. In case of a failure 
to do so by 10:00 o'clock the succeeding day, the lot purchased shall 
again be offered at public sale, on the same terms as before. If the sale 
is or is not made the former purchaser shall be required to pay the 
difference between his bid and the valuation of the lot, and in case of 
his failure to make such payment, the county superintendent may forth- 
with institute an action of debt or assumpsit in his name, as superin- 
tendent, for the use of the inhabitants of the township where the land 



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lies, for the required sum; and upon making proof, shall be entitled to 
judgment, with costs of suit which, when collected, shall be added to the 
principal of the township fund. 

§ 232. All lands not sold at public sale, as herein provided for, 
shall be subject to sale at any time hereafter, at the valuation; and 
the county superintendents are authorized and required, when in their 
power, to sell all such lands at private sale, upon the terms at which 
they were offered at public sale. 

§ 233. In all cases in which common school lands have been valued 
and have remained unsold for two years after having been offered for 
sale in conformity to this Act, the trustees of schools where such lands 
are situated may vacate the valuation thereof by an order to be entered 
in book A of the county superintendent, and cause a new valuation to 
be made, if, in their opinion, the interests of the township will be pro- 
moted thereby. They shall make the second valuation in the same man- 
ner as the first, and shall deliver to the county superintendent a plat 
of the land at such second valuation, with the order of vacation, to be 
entered, as aforesaid ; whereupon the county superintendent shall offer 
the land for sale, as if no former valuation had been made. The second 
valuation may be made by the trustees of schools without a petition. 

§ 234. Upon the completion of every sale the county superintendent 
shall deliver to the purchaser a certificate of purchase including the 
name and residence of the purchaser and the price and description of 
the land. 

§ 235. Every purchaser of common school lands shall be entitled to 
a patent from the State, conveying and assuring the title. Patents 
shall be issued by the Auditor of Public Accounts from returns made to 
him by the county superintendent. They shall contain a description of 
the land granted, and shall be in the name of and signed by the Gov- 
ernor, countersigned by the Auditor, with the great seal of State affixed 
thereto by the Secretary of State, and shall operate to vest in the pur- 
chaser a perfect title -in fee simple. When patents are executed as herein 
required, the Auditor shall note on the list of sales the date of each 
patent, in such manner as to perpetuate the evidence of its date and 
delivery, and thereupon transmit the same to the county superintendent 
of the proper county, to be by him delivered to the patentee, his heirs 
or assigns, upon the return of the original certificate of purchase, which 
certificate, when returned, shall be filed and preserved by the county 
superintendent; and all such patents so issued by the State for school 
lands, or duly certified copies thereof from any record legally made, 
shall, after a lapse of ten years from the date of such patent, and such 
sale having been acquiesced in for ten years by the inhabitants of the 
township in which the land so conveyed may be situated, be conclusive 
evidence as to the legality of the sale, and that the title to such land 
was, at the date of the patent, legally vested in the patentee. 

§ 236. Purchasers of common school lands, and their heirs or as- 
signs, may obtain certified copies of certificates of purchase and patents, 
upon filing affidavit with the county superintendent in respect to certifi- 



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cates, and with the Auditor in respect to patents, proving the loss or de- 
struction of the originals ; and such copies shall have the force and effect 
of originals. 

§ 237. The trustees of schools are hereby authorized to dedicate to 
public use", for street and highway purposes, as much of the unimproved 
common school lands as may be necessary to open or extend any street 
or highway which may be ordered by the municipal authorities to be 
opened or extended, if they shall be of the opinion that the benefit to 
accrue from the opening or extending of such street or highway will 
compensate for the strip so dedicated. It shall not be lawful for any 
street or other railroad to lay tracks on any strip of the common school 
lands so dedicated, or use the same or any part thereof for railroad or 
street railroad- purposes, except upon the purchase or lease of the land 
from the proper authorities, or upon payment to the school fund of the 
township of the value of such use or land, the same as if no street or 
highway had been laid out thereon, to be determined by condemnation 
proceedings. This section shall not in any way affect existing leases 
or contracts for the lease or purchase of common school lands. 

FINES, FORFEITURES AND PENALTIES. 

§ 238. All fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed or incurred in 
any of the courts of record, or before any justice of the peace of the 
State, except fines, forfeitures and penalties incurred or imposed in in- 
corporated towns or cities for the violation of the by-laws or ordinances 
thereof, shall, when collected, be paid to the county superintendent of 
schools of the county wherein such fines, forfeitures or penalties have 
been imposed or incurred, and the county superintendent of schools 
shall give his receipt therefor to the person from whom such fine, for- 
feiture or penalty was received. 

§ 239. It shall be the duty of the State's attorneys of the several- 
counties to enforce the collection of all fines, forfeitures and penalties 
imposed or incurred in the courts of record of their respective counties, 
and to pay the same to the county superintendent of the county wherein 
the same have been imposed or incurred, retaining therefrom the fees 
and commissions allowed them by law. 

§ 240. It shall be the duty of the justices of the peace to enforce 
the collection of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by them; 
and to pay the same to the county superintendent of the county in which 
the same were imposed. 

§ 241. Clerks of courts of record, State's attorneys and all justices 
of the peace shall report, under oath, to the county court of their respec- 
tive counties, by the first of March, annually, the amount of such fines, 
forfeitures and penalties imposed or incurred in their respective courts, 
and the amount of such fines, forfeitures and penalties collected by 
them, giving each item separately; and if any such officer has collected 
no such fines, forfeitures or penalties he shall make affidavit to such 
fact, and file the same with the county superintendent. The judges of 
the county court shall inspect the said reports, and may hear evidence 



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thereon, and if found correct and truthful, shall enter an order approv- 
ing such report, and directing that any moneys in the hands of such 
officers so reporting shall be paid over to the superintendent of schools. 
If the court shall not approve such report, he may order another one 
to be made, and upon a failure to comply with the order of the court, 
or to make a satisfactory report, the court may state an account and 
enter an order to pay over, as herein provided. The court, for all pur- 
poses for carrying out the provisions of this section, shall have power to 
examine books and papers as provided in section 243 of this Act, and 
shall have power to issue subpoenas for both books and persons. No 
report shall be approved until the court shall have given the superin- 
tendent five days 7 notice of the same, and the superintendent shall be 
allowed to inspect the report, and may be heard by the court concerning 
the same. The officers charged with the collection of fines, forfeitures 
and penalties, the said clerks, State's attorneys and justices of the peace, 
for a failure to make such report, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five 
dollars for each offense, such fine to be recovered in a civil action, before 
any court, at the suit o>f the county superintendent of schools of the 
proper county. 

§ 242. For a failure to pay any fine, forfeiture or penalty, on demand, 
to the person who is by law authorized to receive the same, the officer 
or person having collected the same, or having the same in his possession 
or control, shall forfeit and pay double the amount of such fine, forfeiture 
or penalty, to be recovered before any court having jurisdiction thereof, in 
a qui tarn action, one-half to be paid to the informer and one-half to the 
distributive fund of the proper county. 

§ 243. In case any clerk of a court of record, State's attorney or 
justice of the peace shall fail to make the report provided for in section 
238 of this Act, the county court shall have power, and it is hereby made 
the duty of the judge of said court, to examine all records pertaining to 
the office of such delinquent officer and enforce the payment of whatever 
sum may be found due the school fund from such delinquent officer. For 
the purpose of making such examination, the county court shall have 
the right to call for any paper or papers, docket, fee book or other 
record belonging to the office of such delinquent officer, and in case such 
delinquent officer fails or refuses to furnish such paper, docket, fee book 
or other record for the inspection or use of such county court, he shall 
forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action of 
debt or assumpsit, before any court of this State having jurisdiction 
of the actions of debt and assumpsit, and such penalty, when collected, 
shall be paid into the distributive fund of the proper county. 

LIABILITY OF SCHOOL OFFICERS. 

§ 244. When the county superintendent of schools of any county 
shall notify the trustees of schools of a township, in writing, that the 
notes, bonds, mortgages or other evidences of indebtedness which have 
been taken officially by the township treasurer, are not in proper form,, 
or that the securities which he has taken are insufficient, it shall be the 
duty of the trustees to take at once such action as may be necessary to 



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protect the property or fund of the township and the district. For a 
failure or refusal to take such action within twenty days after such 
notice, the trustees of schools, each in his individual capacity, shall be 
liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred 
dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, or information 
in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, provided such insuffi- 
ciency is proven, and, when collected, such fine shall be paid to the 
county superintendent of the proper county for the use of the schools. 
The payment of this fine shall not relieve the board of trustees from 
any civil liability they may have incurred from such neglect of duty. 

§ 245. When a change shall be made in the boundaries of a school 
district, and a written statement of such change shall be delivered to 
the county clerk, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to file such 
statement and all papers relating thereto and record them. And in case 
of a neglect or failure to do so the said county clerk shall be liable to 
a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by an action of debt, 
before any justice of the peace, at the suit of the county superintendent, 
for the benefit of the school fund of the county. 

§ 246. Trustees of schools shall be liable, jointly and severally, for 
the sufficiency of securities taken from township treasurers ; and in case 
of judgment against any treasurer and his securities for or on account 
of any default of such treasurer, on which the money shall not be made 
for want of sufficient property whereon to levy execution, action on the 
case may be maintained against the trustees, jointly and severally, and 
the amount not collected on the judgment shall be recovered with costs 
of suit from such trustees. If the trustees can show, satisfactorily, that 
the security taken from the treasurer, was, at the time it was taken, good 
and sufficient, they shall not be liable. 

§ 247. If the trustees of schools shall fail to observe the provisions 
of this Act in reference to the distribution of funds and property when 
a new district is formed, they shall be individually and jointly liable 
to the district interested, in an action on the case, to the full amount 
of the damages sustained by the district aggrieved. When trustees have 
heretofore failed to make the distribution of property to districts, as 
provided by this Act, the district interested in such distribution may, 
by its directors, request the trustees in writing to make such distribu- 
tion; and the trustees shall make it in the manner prescribed, and shall 
be liable, as herein stated, for the neglect or failure to do so. 

§ 248. The clerk of any board of trustees who shall fail, neglect or 
refuse to perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act, within the 
time or in the manner prescribed, shall, for each offense, forfeit not 
less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, of his pay as 
clerk of the trustees of schools and township treasurer, which forfeiture 
shall be enforced by the trustees. 

§ 249. For a failure on the part of the treasurer, clerk of any board 
of directors, or any director, to comply with any of the requirements of 
this Act, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $5.00 nor 
more than $50.00, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of 
the county in which the offense is committed. 



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§ 250.- For any failure or, refusal to perform all the duties required 
of the township treasurer by law, he shall be liable to the trustees of 
schools, upon his official bond, for all damages sustained, to be recovered 
by action of debt by the trustees for the use of the township, before any 
court having jurisdiction of the amount of damages claimed; but if the 
treasurer, in any failure or refusal, acted under and in conformity to a 
requisition or order of the trustees of schools, or a majority of them, 
entered upon their journal and subscribed by their president and clerk, 
then, and in that case, the trustees of schools or those voting for such 
requisition or order, and not the treasurer, shall be liable, jointly and 
severally, to the inhabitants of the township for such damages, to be 
recovered by an action of assumpsit in the official name of the county 
superintendent of schools, for the use of the townships : Provided, how- 
ever, that the township treasurer shall be liable for any part of the 
judgment obtained against the trustees of schools which cannot be col- 
lected on account of their insolvency. 

§ 251. If judgment shall be obtained against any trustee of schools 
or directors, the party entitled to the benefit of such judgment may have 
execution therefor as follows : The court in which such judgment shall 
be obtained, or to which such judgment may be removed by transcript 
or appeal from a justice of the peace, or other court, shall issue a writ 
commanding the directors, trustees and treasurer of such township to 
cause the amount thereof, with interest and costs, to be paid to the party 
entitled to the benefit of such judgment, out of any moneys of such 
township or district unappropriated, or if there be no such moneys, out 
of the first moneys applicable to the payment of the kind of services 
or indebtedness for which such judgment shall be obtained, which shall 
be received for the use of such township or district, and to enforce 
obedience to such writ by attachment, or by mandamus, requiring such 
board to levy a tax for the payment of such judgment; and all legal 
processes, as well as writs to enforce payment, shall be served either on 
the president or the clerk of the board. 

§ 252. Trustees of schools, or either of them, failing or refusing to 
make returns of children in their township according to the provisions 
of this Act, or if either of them shall knowingly make a false return, 
the party so offending shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $10.00 
nor more than $100.00, to be recovered by an action of assumpsit before 
any justice of the peace of the county; which penalty, when collected, 
shall be added to the distributive fund of the township in which the 
trustees reside. 

§ 253. If the judges of a school election called for any legal pur- 
pose shall fail or neglect to deliver a copy of the poll book of any such 
election, with a certificate thereon showing the results of such election, 
to the officer to whom such return shall be made, within ten days after 
such election, they shall be severally liable to a penalty of not less than 
$25.00 nor more than $100.00, to be recovered in the name of the 
People of the State of Illinois, by an action of debt before any justice 
of the peace of the county. The penalty, when collected, shall be added 
to the distributive fund of the township. 



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§ 254. If the school directors of any district in this State shall fail 
to examine and deliver to the township treasurer on or before the seventh 
day of July, annually, all teachers' schedules made and certified as 
required by law, and covering the time taught during the school year 
ending June 30, they shall be personally liable to the district for any 
and all loss sustained by it through their failure to do so. 

§ 255. Any director who shall be interested in a contract made by 
the board of which he is a member shall he liable to indictment, and 
upon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than $25.00 and not 
more than $500.00, and may be imprisoned in the county jail not less 
than one nor more than twelve months, at the discretion of the court. 

§ 256. For any failure to comply with the requisitions of section 84 
of this Act, the treasurer or other person neglecting or refusing shall 
be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred 
dollars, at the discretion of the court before which judgment may be 
obtained, to be recovered in an action of debt before any justice of the 
peace, for the benefit of the distributive fund of such township: Pro- 
vided, however, that the obtaining or payment of such judgment shall 
in no wise discharge or diminish the obligations of the persons signing 
the official bond of such township treasurer. 

§ 257. If any county superintendent, trustee of schools, township 
treasurer, director or any other person entrusted with the care, control, 
management or disposition of any school, college, seminary or township 
fund for the use of any county, township, district or school, shall con- 
vert such funds, or any part thereof, to his own use, he shall be liable 
to indictment, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less 
than double the amount of money converted to his own use, and impris- 
oned in the county jail not less than one nor more than twelve months, 
at the discretion of the court. 

§ 258. The real estate of county superintendents, of township treas- 
urers, and all other school officers, and of the securities of each of 
them, shall be bound for the satisfaction and payment of all claims and 
demands against such superintendents, treasurers and other school officers 
as such from the date of issuing process against them, in actions or suits 
brought to recover such claims or demands until satisfaction thereof be 
obtained ; and no sale or alienation of real estate, by any superintendent, 
treasurer or other officer or security, shall defeat the lien created by this 
section, but all and singular such real estate held, owned or claimed, 
shall be liable to be sold in satisfaction of any judgment which may be 
obtained in such actions or suits. 

§ 259. If any county superintendent, trustee, director, or other offi- 
cer whose duty it is, shall negligently or wilfully fail or refuse to make, 
furnish or communicate statistics and information, or shall fail to 
discharge the duties enjoined upon them, or either of them, at the time 
and in the manner required by the provisions of this Act, he shall be 
liable to a fine of not less than $25.00, to be recovered before any 
justice of the peace at the suit of any person, on information in the 
name of the People of the State of Illinois, and when collected, the fine 
shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools. 



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§ 260. No State, county, township or district school officer or teacher 
shall be interested in the sale, proceeds or profits of any book, apparatus 
or furniture used or to be used in any school in this State with which 
such officer or teacher may be connected; and for offending against the 
provisions of this section such State, county, townshi^ or district school 
officer or teacher shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall 
be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars, 
and may be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor more 
than twelve months, at the discretion of the court. 

§ 261. Any school officer or officers, or any other person, who shall 
exclude or aid in excluding from the public schools, on account of color, 
any child who is entitled to the benefits of such school, shall be fined, 
upon conviction, not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. 

§ 262. Any person who shall, by threats, menace or intimidation, 
prevent any colored child entitled to attend a public school in this 
State from attending such school shall, upon conviction, be fined not 
exceeding $25.00. 

§ 263. No county, city, town, township, school district or other 
public corporation shall make any appropriation, or pay from any school 
fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or 
to support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university 
or other literary or scientific institution controlled by any church or 
sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of 
money or other personal property, be made by any such corporation to 
any church or for any sectarian purpose. Any officer, or other person 
having under his charge or direction school funds or property, who shall 
pervert the same in the manner forbidden in this section shall be liable 
to indictment, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than 
double the value of the property so perverted, and imprisoned in the 
county jail not less than one nor more than twelve months, at the 
discretion of the court. 

§ 264. County superintendents, trustees of, schools, township treas- 
urers and directors, or either of them, or any other officer having charge 
of school funds or property, shall be pecuniarily responsible for all losses 
sustained by any county or township fund, by reason of any failure on 
his or their part to perform the duties required of him or them by the 
provisions of this Act, or by any rule or regulation authorized to be made 
by the provisions of this Act, and each and every one of the officers 
aforesaid shall be liable for any such loss sustained as aforesaid, and 
the amount of such loss may be recovered in a civil action brought in 
any court having jurisdiction thereof, at the suit of the State of Illinois, 
for the use of the county, township or fund injured; the amount of the 
judgment obtained in such suit shall, when collected, be paid to the 
proper officer for the benefit of the county, township or fund injured. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

§ 265. All school officers elected in pursuance of any general law 
now in force shall hold their respective offices until their successors are 
elected and qualified under the provisions of this Act. 



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§ 266. Trustees of schools,, school directors or other school officers 
performing like duties, shall receive no pecuniary compensation, but 
they shall be exempt from road labor and military duty during their 
term of office. 

§ 267. No justice of the peace, constable, clerk of any court, sheriff 
or coroner shall charge any costs in any suit in which any school officer, 
school corporation or any agent of any school fund, suing for the recovery 
of the same, or any interest due thereon, is plaintiff and shall be unsuc- 
cessful in such suit; nor in case the costs cannot be recovered from 
the defendant by reason of the insolvency of such defendant. 

§ 268. No person shall vote at any school election held under the 
provisions of this Act who does not possess the qualifications of a voter 
at a general election. 

§ 269. Any woman who has attained the age of 21 years, and who 
possesses the qualifications prescribed, shall be eligible to any office under 
the general or special school laws of this State. 

§ 270. Any woman who is a citizen and has attained the age of 
21 years, who shall have resided in the State one year, in the county 
ninety days and in the election district thirty days preceding any 
election held for the purpose of choosing any school officer under the 
general or special school laws of this State, shall be entitled to vote at 
such election, when registered in the manner provided by law. If the 
election of school officers shall occur at the time other public officers are 
elected, the ballot offered by any woman shall contain only the names 
of candidates for school officers. Such ballots shall be deposited in a 
separate ballot box, but canvassed with other ballots cast for school 
officers at such election. 

§ 271. The Governor shall, annually, in the spring, designate by 
official proclamation, a day or days to be known as "Arbor and Bird day," 
to be observed throughout the State as a day for planting trees, shrubs 
and vines about the homes and along highways, and about public grounds 
within this State, and as a day on which to hold appropriate exercises 
in the public schools and elsewhere, tending to show the value of trees 
and birds and the necessity for their protection. 

§ 272. The proceedings of the State Teachers' Association, when 
approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall be printed 
and bound by the Secretary of State, on the same terms as the proceed- 
ings of State boards, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw 
his warrant therefor on the State Treasurer to be paid out of the appro- 
priation for printing, upon a voucher properly certified by the Board 
of Commissioners of State Contracts. 

§ 273. The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their 
effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the 
various divisions of physiology and hygiene, as thoroughly as are other 
branches, in all schools under State control, or supported wholly or in 
part by public money, and also in all schools connected with reformatory 
institutions. All pupils in the above mentioned schools, below the 
second year of the high school and above the third year of school work, 
computing from the. beginning of the lowest primary year, or in cor- 



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responding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study 
this subject every year from suitable text books in the hands of all 
pupils, for not less than four lessons a week for ten or more weeks of 
each year, and must pass the same tests in this as in other studies. In 
all schools above mentioned all pupils in the lowest three primary school 
years, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall each year be 
instructed in this subject orally for not less than three lessons a week 
for ten weeks in each year, by teachers using text books adapted for such 
oral instruction as a guide and standard. The local school authorities 
shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch 
in the regular courses of study. The text books in the pupils' hands shall 
be graded to the capacity of the fourth year, intermediate, grammar and 
high school pupils, or to corresponding classes as found in ungraded 
schools. For students below high school grade such text books shall give 
at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high school grade shall 
give not less than twenty pages, to the nature and effects of alcoholic 
drinks and other narcotics. The pages on this subject, in a separate 
chapter at the end of the book, shall not be counted in determining the 
minimum. In all normal schools, teachers' training classes and teachers' 
institutes, adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in 
the best method of teaching this branch, and no teacher shall be 
licensed who has not passed a satisfactory examination in this subject 
and the best methods of teaching it. Any school officer or officers who 
shall neglect or fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall 
forfeit and pay for each offense the sum of not less than five dollars nor 
more than twenty-five dollars. 

§ 274. Every person having control of any child between the ages 
of seven and sixteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some 
public or private school for the entire time during which the school at- 
tended is in session, which shall not be less than six months of actual 
teaching: Provided, however, that this Act shall not apply in case the 
child has been or is being instructed for a like period in each and every 
year in the elementary branches of education by a person or persons 
competent to give such instruction, or in case the child's physical or 
mental condition renders his or her attendance impracticable or inex- 
pedient, or in case the child is excused for temporary absence for cause 
by the principal or teacher of the school which said child attends, or 
in case the child is between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years and is 
necessarily and lawfully employed during the hours when the public 
school is in session. For every neglect of the duty prescribed by this 
section, the person so offending shall forfeit to the use of the public 
schools of the city, town or district in which such child resides, a sum 
not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars and costs of suit, 
and shall stand committed until such fine and costs of suit are paid. 

§ 275. The board of education or the board of school directors, as 
the case may be, shall appoint at the time of election of teachers one or 
more truant officers whose duty it shall be to report all violations of the 
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enter complaint against and -prosecute all persons who shall appear to 
be guilty of such violation. It shall also be the duty of the truant officer 
to arrest any child of school going age that habitually haunts public 
places and has no lawful occupation, and also any truant child who 
absents himself or herself from school, and to place him or her in charge 
of the teacher having charge of any school which said child is by law 
entitled to attend, and which school, shall be designated to said officer by 
the parent, guardian or person having control of said child. In case such 
parent, guardian or person shall designate a school without making or 
having made arrangements for the reception of said child in the school 
so designated, or in case he refuses or fails to designate any school, 
then such truant officer shall place such child in charge of the teacher 
of the public school. And it shall be the duty of said teacher to assign 
said child to the proper class and to instruct him or her in such studies 
as he or she is fitted to pursue. The truant officer so appointed shall 
be entitled to such compensation for services rendered under this Act 
as shall be determined by the board appointing him, which compensation 
shall be paid from the distributive fund of the district: Provided, 
however, that nothing herein shall prevent the parent, guardian or per- 
son having charge of such truant child, which has been placed in any 
school by the truant officer, to send said child to any other school which 
said child is by law entitled to attend. Any person having control of a 
child, who, with intent to evade the provisions of this section, shall make 
a false statement concerning the age or the employment of such child 
or the time such child has attended school, shall for such offense forfeit 
a sum of not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars for 
the use of the public schools of the district. 

§ 276. This Act shall not be construed so as to repeal or change, in 
any respect, any special Act in relation to schools in cities having a 
population of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants, or cities, townships or 
districts, except that in every such city, township or district the limit 
of taxation for educational and building purposes shall be the same as 
that fixed in section 189 of this Act ; and except that it shall be the duty 
of the several boards of education or other officers of any city, township 
or district, having in charge schools under the provisions of any special 
Act or Acts, on or before the 15th day of July preceding each session 
of the General Assembly of this State, or annually, if required so to do 
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to report statistics and 
other information relating to schools, and the enumeration of persons 
as required of trustees of schools or directors, under the provisions of 
this Act, or so much thereof as may be applicable to such city, township 
or district, to the county superintendent of the county in which such 
city, township or district is situated; nor shall it be lawful for the 
county superintendent, or any other officer or person, to pay over any 
portion of the common school fund to any local treasurer, school agent, 
clerk, board of education or other officer or person of any city, town- 
ship or district, unless a report of the number of persons, and other sta- 
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by the trustees of schools or school directors, and other school officers 
and teachers, under the provisions of this Act, shall have been filed with 
the superintendent of the proper county. 

§ 277. An Act to establish and maintain a system ot tree schools, 
approved May 21, 1889, as amended, is hereby repealed. 

§ 278. Whereas, An emergency exists, this Act shall take effect 
from and after its passage. 

Approved June 12, 1909. 



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SUPPLEMENTAL ACTS. 



BOARD OF EDUCATION APPOINTED. 



An Act to provide for the appointment of school directors and members 
of the board of education in certain cases. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That in all cases, where, by the provi- 
sions of any general or special law, the members of any common council 
of any city have been made ex officio school directors, or members of the 
board of education in and for the school district of which the said city 
shall constitute the whole or a part, the said school directors or members 
of the board of education shall hereafter be appointed as hereinafter 
provided. 

1. The application of this Act relates only to the school districts that 
include the cities of Alton, Carlinville, Galena, LaHarpe, Lake Forest, Litch- 
field, Macomb, Rockford and Waukegan. 

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor of said city, at the first regular 
meeting of the city council after each annual municipal election, and 
after his installation into office, to nominate and place before the coun- 
cil, for confirmation as school director or members of the board of 
education, as the case may be, one person from each ward of said city 
to serve for two years, and one person from the city at large to serve 
for one year, and if the persons so appointed shall be so confirmed 
by a majority vote of the city council, to be entered of record, the 
persons so appointed, together with such persons theretofore appointed 
under the provisions of this Act, to which this is an amendment, whose 
terms of service will not expire within one year, shall constitute the 
board of education or school directors for such district: Provided, 
that the person appointed from the city at large for one year shall be 
president of said board of education or school directors, but shall have 
no vote in such board excepting in case of a tie : And, provided, further, 
that the term of office of all persons heretofore appointed under the 
provisions of the Act to which this is an amendment, whose terms of 



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office expires within one year, shall terminate at the first regular meeting 
of the city council after the annual meeting, and upon the appointment 
and confirmation of their successors. (As amended by Act approved 
and in force May 28, 1889.) 

§ 3. The said persons shall, as soon as practicable after their appoint- 
ment, organize by electing one of their number secretary, who shall hold 
his office for one year. All rights, powers and duties heretofore exercised 
by and devolved upon the members of the city council, as ex officio 
members of the board of education, or school directors, shall devolve 
upon and be exercised by the members of the board of education and 
school directors appointed under the provisions of this Act. (As amended 
by Act approved and in force May 28, 1889.) 

§ 4. In all school districts to which this Act shall apply the boards 
of education or school directors shall annually, before the first day of 
August, certify to the city council, under the . hands and seals of the 
president and secretary of the board, the amount of money required 
to be' raised by taxation for school purposes in said district for the 
ensuing year, and the said city council shall thereupon cause the said 
amount to be levied and collected in the same manner • now provided 
by law for the levy and collection of taxes for school purposes in such 
district, but the amount to be so levied and collected shall not exceed 
the amount now allowed to be collected for school purposes by the general 
school laws of this State; and when such taxes have been collected and 
paid over to the treasurer of such city or school district, as may be 
provided by the terms of the Act under which such district has been 
organized, such funds shall be paid out only on the order of the board 
of education or school directors, signed by the president and secretary of 
such board. . 

Approved May 29, 1879. 



BOARD OF EDUCATION ELECTED. 

An Act to give cities, incorporated, towns, townships and districts, in 
which free schools are now managed under special Acts, authority 
to elect boards of education having the same powers as boards of 
education now elected under the general free school laws of this 
State. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That any city, incorporated town, 
township or district having a population of not less than 1,000 and not 
over 20,000 inhabitants, in which free schools are now managed under 
any special Act, may, by vote of its electors, determine to elect, instead 
of the directors or other governing or managing board, now provided 
for by such special Act, a board of education which shall be elected at 
the time and in the manner and have the powers now conferred by law 
upon boards of education of districts not governed by any special Act. 

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§ 2. Upon petition of fifty voters of such city, town, township or 
district, presented to the board having the control and management of 
schools in such city, town, township or district, it shall be the duty 
of such board, at the next ensuing election to be held in such city, town, 
township or district, to cause to be submitted to the voters thereof, 
giving not less than fifteen days' notice thereof, by posting not less 
than five notices in the most public places in such city, town, township 
or district, the question of "electing a board of education having the 
powers conferred upon such boards in districts organized under the free 
school laws," which notice may be in the following form, to- wit: 

Public notice is hereby given, that on the day of A. D. 

, an election will be held at , between the hours of 

m. and m. of said day, for the purpose of deciding the question 

of "electing a board of education having the powers conferred upon such 
boards in districts organized under the free school law." 

If it shall appear, upon a canvass of the returns of such election, that 
a majority of the votes cast at such election are "for electing a board 
of education having the powers conferred upon such boards in districts 
organized under the free school law," then at the time of the next 
Regular election for boards of education under the free school law, there 
shall be elected a board of education for such district; and should there 
not be sufficient time to give the notice required by law for such election, 
then such election may be held on any Saturday thereafter, but all 
subsequent elections shall be held at the time provided by the free 
school law. 

Approved June 2, 1891. 



EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS. 

An Act to allow directors of schools under special laws to assume and 
provide for indebtedness heretofore created by the authorities of city 
for school purposes. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any city in this 
State is by special law made a school district, or whenever any school 
district created by special law shall be co-terminus with any city, the 
directors of such district shall have the power, at the request of the city 
council, to assume and provide for, by borrowing and taxation, any 
indebtedness now existing, created by the authorities of the city for 
school purposes. 

Approved June 22, 1891. 



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BONDS. 

An Act to authorize certain school districts to issue bonds for certain 

purposes. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of building 
or repairing school houses, or purchasing or improving school sites, any 
school district in this State, existing by virtue of any special charter, 
and governed by such special charter, and special or general school laws, 
whose boundaries are co-extensive with or greater than the boundaries 
of any incorporated city, town or village, where authorized by a majority 
of all the votes cast at an election called for that purpose, may borrow 
money, and as evidence of such indebtedness, may issue bonds in denomi- 
nations of not less than one hundred (100) dollars, nor more than one 
thousand (1,000) dollars, for a term not to exceed twenty (20) years, 
bearing interest at a rate not to exceed five (5) per centum, per annum, 
payable annually, semi-annually or quarterly, and signed by the presi- 
dent and secretary of the school board of such school district : Provided, 
that the amount borrowed in any one year shall not exceed, including 
existing indebtedness, five (5) per centum of the taxable property of 
such school district, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State 
and county taxes previous to incurring such indebtedness. (As amended 
by an Act approved March 30, 1905.) 

§ 2. All bonds authorized by virtue of this Act, before being issued, 
negotiated and sold, shall be registered, numbered and countersigned by 
the treasurer of such school district. Such register [registration] shall 
be made in a book provided for this purpose and in this register shall be 
entered the record of the election authorizing such school district to issue 
bonds, and a description of the bonds issued, including the number, date, 
amount, rate of interest and when payable. 

§ 3. All moneys, borrowed by virtue of this Act, shall be paid into 
the treasury of such school district, and upon receiving such moneys, 
the treasurer shall deliver the bond or bonds issued therefor, to the 
person or persons entitled to receive the same, and shall credit the 
amount received to such school district. The treasurer shall record the 
exact amount received for each bond issued, and when anv bond is paid 
the treasurer shall cancel the same, and enter in the register opposite 

the record of such bond, the words "paid and cancelled this day 

of , 19. . ." filling the blanks with the date, month 

and year corresponding with the date of such payment. 

§ 4. Whenever it is desired to hold an election for the purpose of 
borrowing money, as provided by this Act, the school board of such 
district in which such election is to be held, shall give ten (10) days' 
notice of the holding of such election, by posting notices in at least 
three public places in such school district. Such notices shall specify 
the place where such election is to be held, the time of opening and 
closing the polls and the proposition to be voted on. At such election 
two members of the school board shall act as judges and one shall act 



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as clerk. The judges and clerk shall take the oath required of judges 
and clerks of an election held for county or township officers. At such 
election all votes shall be by ballot. (As amended by an Act approved 
March 30, 1905.) 

§ 5. Within ten (10) days after such election the judges shall cause 
the poll book to be returned to the treasurer of the said school district, 
with a certificate thereon showing the result of such election. The 
poll book shall be filed by the treasurer, and shall be evidence of such 
election. For a failure to return the poll book to the treasurer within 
the time prescribed, the judges of said election shall be liable, severally, 
to a penalty of not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than 
one hundred (100) dollars, to be recovered in a suit in the name of the 
People of the State of Illinois, before any justice of the peace, and 
when collected shall be added to the school fund of said district. 

§ 6. Where any such school district has heretofore issued bonds, 
or other evidences of indebtedness, on account of any public school 
building, or for any other purpose, which are now binding and sub- 
sisting obligations against such school district and remaining outstand- 
ing, such school district may, upon the surrender of any such bonds 
or any part thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness, issue in lieu 
thereof, to the holder or holders of said bonds, or to any person or 
persons, for money with which to take up the same, new bonds in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this Act : Provided, such bonds shall not be 
issued so as to increase the aggregate indebtedness of such school district 
to exceed, including existing indebtedness, five (5) per centum of the 
taxable property of such school district, to be ascertained by the last 
assessment for the State and county taxes previous to incurring such 
indebtedness. 

§ 7. Whereas, An emergency exists, this Act shall be in full force 
and effect from and after its passage. 

Approved and in force May 10, 1901. 



BOARD OF EDUCATION IN CERTAIN CASES. 

An Act to provide for the election of boards of education in school 
districts organized under special Acts of the Legislature of this State, 
where such school districts are maintained under the general school 
laws of this State, and where there is no provision in such special 
Acts for the election of hoards of education. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That hereafter, in all school 
districts in this State organized under any special law of this State, 
and maintaining public schools under any general school laws of this 
State, where there is no provision in said special Acts creating such 
special school districts, for the election of boards of education as other- 
wise provided, there shall be elected in • each of said special school 
districts, in lieu of the school directors as now provided, a board of 



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education, to consist of seven members to be elected at the time and 
in the manner as now provided by the general law for the election and 
qualification of boards of education in other cases:- Provided, that at 
the first election of such board, which shall be held on the third Saturday 
in April, A. D. 1898, two of such members shall be elected to serve one 
year, two to serve two years, and two to serve three years, and a president 
of such board shall be elected, whose term of office shall be one year; 
and annually thereafter there shall be elected in said school district two 
members of such board, whose term of office shall be three years, and 
there shall also be elected annually thereafter a president of said board. 
Said board of education, when so elected and qualified, shall have all the 
powers of trustees of schools in school townships as is now provided by 
general law. Said board of education, in addition to the powers of 
trustees aforesaid, shall also have all the powers of school directors 
as is now. provided for by the general school law of this State; and in 
addition thereto and inclusive thereof, they shall have all the powers 
and perform all the duties of boards of education in school districts 
having a population of not less than 1,000 and not over 100,000 inhabit- 
ants under the general school law as the same now exists and as set 
forth in article 6 of the school law, or shall be conferred by any future 
alterations thereof by the Legislature. (As amended by an Act approved 
May 10, 1901.) 

1. The provisions of this act govern the schools only in the Illiopolis, 
Lockport, Marion, Naperville and Olney districts. 

§ 2. Whereas, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take 
effect from and after its passage. 
Approved June 10, 1897. 



BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. 

An Act to amend section 1 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for 
the election of boards of education in certain districts," approved May 
15, 1903, in force July 1, 1903. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That section one (1) of an Act en- 
titled "An Act to provide for the election of boards of education in cer- 
tain districts," approved May 15, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, be and 
the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 

§ 1. That in all school districts in this State, having a population 
of over 35,000 by the last Federal census, existing by virtue of any special 
charter, where the board of directors or board of education is elected or 
appointed by the common council of the city, of which school district such 
city may form the whole or a part, and where there are no provisions in 
the special charter creating such school district, for the election of a 
board of directors or hoard of education, there shall be elected hereafter 
in each of said school districts, in lieu of the present governing body, a 



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board of education, to consist of seven members to be elected at the same 
time and in the same manner, as provided by the general school law for 
the election of boards of education in school districts having a population 
of not less than 1,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants. Such 
board of education when elected and qualified, shall have all the powers 
of trustees of schools in school townships. It shall also have all the 
powers of boards of directors, and in addition thereto, all the powers 
of boards of education elected by virtue of the general school law of this 
State: Provided, however, that where any such school district shall lie 
wholly within or partly within and partly without any such city, village or 
incorporated town and said city, village or incorporated town, has adopted 
or may adopt an Act entitled, "An Act regulating the holding of elec- 
tions and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages, and incorporated 
towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, and in force July 1, 1885, 
and acts amendatory thereof, then the board of directors or board of 
education of such school district shall locate the polling place or places, 
appoint the judges and clerks and otherwise conduct the election in that 
portion or part of the school district that lies without such city, village 
or incorporated town, in the manner now provided by law, except as 
hereinafter provided, but no one residing without such city, village or 
incorporated town shall vote at any polling place within, nor shall any 
one residing within vote at any polling place without, and the votes cast 
at the polling place or places without such city, village or incorporated 
town, shall be returned, certified and canvassed as is now provided by 
law in such cases, and in addition thereto a complete abstract of the vote 
cast and canvassed shall be made, certified and returned to the board of 
election commissioners of such city, village or incorporated town: 
And, provided, further, that in all that part or portion of such school 
district that lies within such city, village or incorporated town, and in 
such school district, when the same lies wholly within any such city, vil- 
lage or incorporated town, the election for such board of directors or 
board of education shall be conducted by the board of election commis- 
sioners of such city, village or incorporated town and in accordance with 
the provisions of the said Act of June 19, 1885, and the amendments there- 
to: And, provided, further, when such school district lies partly within 
and partly without any such city, village or incorporated town, the said 
board of election commissioners shall certify the returns received by them 
from the polling place or places without such city, village or incorporated 
town, to the proper officer or officers ; and all the returns so certified and 
returned by the said board of election commissioners shall be canvassed, 
together with the returns certified from the polling places within such 
city, village or incorporated town, by the same canvassing board and the 
results thereof declared, and certificates of election shall be issued thereon 
the same as if all such votes had been cast in, certified and returned from 
such city, village or incorporated town: And, provided, further, that 
the regular election for the members of such board of education in any 
such school district lying wholly within or partly within and partly 
without any such city, village or incorporated town, which city, village 
or incorporated town has adopted or may adopt said Act of June 19, 



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1885, and Acts amendatory thereof, shall be held on the first Tuesday 
of the month of April of each and every year after the passage 
of this Act: And, provided, further, that nominations of candi- 
dates for the office of member of said board of education to be voted 
for at all elections provided for in this Act shall be made only by 
petition in like manner as is provided for nominations of candidates by 
petition for town offices in counties under township organization by* 
an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the printing and distribution 
of ballots at public expense, and for the nominations of candidates for 
public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce 
the secrecy of the ballot," approved June 22, 1891, in force July 1, 
1891, and Acts amendatory thereof; such petitions to be addressed to 
and filed in the office of the said board of education of such city, village 
or incorporated town, which board may certify to the said board of elec- 
tion commissioners the petitions so filed ; except, however, that such peti- 
tions for nominations at the election which may be held on the fourth 
day of April, 1911, may be filed on or before five days before such elec- 
tion; the said elections in other respects to be held under the provisions 
of the said Act of June 22, 1891, and Acts amendatory thereof, so far 
as the same may apply and may not be inconsistent with the provisions 
of this Act. 

1. The foregoing section affects only the school districts in which the 
cities of Quincy and Springfield are situate. 

§ 2. Whereas, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
Approved March 29, 1911. 



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ADDITIONAL ACTS. 



ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY. 



An Act to provide for the annexation of cities, incorporated towns and 
villages, or parts of same, to cities, incorporated towns and villages. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep- 
resented in the General Assembly: That where an incorporated city, 
town or village adjoins another incorporated city, town or village, it may 
be annexed thereto in the manner following, that is to say: 

* * ' * * * * * 

§ 4. The city, village or incorporated town to which the whole or 
another city, village or incorporated town is annexed under the pro- 
visions of this Act shall assume and pay any and all debts, liabilities, 
bonds or obligations and interests thereon of the city, incorporated town 
or village so annexed and shall become vested with title and ownership 
of all property belonging to said city, village or incorporated town so 
annexed, to be held for the same purposes and to the same uses, subject 
to the same conditions as. theretofore, and if the public schools of such 
enlarged city, village or incorporated town are all in charge and under 
the control of one board of education, the said enlarged city, village or 
incorporated town shall assume and pay the indebtedness of each school 
district or township lying wholly therein, and shall become vested with 
the title and ownership of all property belonging to any school district 
or township lying wholly therein, to be held for the same purposes and 
to the same uses and subject to the same conditions as theretofore. If 
the bonds of said city, village or incorporated town so annexed, or of any 
school district or township lying wholly therein have been registered in 
the office of the State Auditor of Public Accounts, in accordance with 
the statute, the county clerk shall certify the fact of such annexation 
forthwith to said State Auditor, and said State Auditor shall not there- 
after certify any rate per centum to the county clerk, nor shall the 
county clerk thereafter extend any such rate for the payment of said 
bonds or interest thereon upon the taxable property of such city, town 
or village so annexed, or school district or township. All debts, bonds 
and obligations of the united municipality to be paid by the enlarged 
city, village or incorporated town. And if there be a portion of a school 
district or township lying within, and a portion lying without such 
annexed territory, the debts of such school district or township shall be 






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paid, and the property divided in the same manner as is provided for 
paying debts and dividing property in section eight of this Act where 
parts of cities, villages or incorporated towns are annexed to other cities, 
villages or incorporated towns. 

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§ 8. When a part of the territory of a city, village or incorporated 
town is taken therefrom and annexed to another city, village or incorpor- 
ated town, under the provisions of this Act, then the proportionate share 
of any indebtedness, contract or liability of such city, village or incor- 
porated town from. which such territory is taken shall be assumed and 
paid by such enlarged city, village or incorporated -town according to the 
taxable property in such disconnected territory as the same existed im- 
mediately before such annexation, and if the public schools of such 
enlarged city, village or incorporated town shall be in charge and control 
of one board of education, then the proportionate share of any indebted- 
ness of any school district or township shall be assumed and paid by such 
enlarged city, village or incorporated town, according to the taxable 
property in such part of such disconnected territory within such school 
district or township as the same existed immediately before such annexa- 
tion, and if the whole of a school district or township is annexed then 
such municipality shall assume and pay all the indebtedness of such 
school district or township. The amount of the said indebtedness to be 
paid by said enlarged city, town or village shall be determined and 
agreed upon by the city council of the city or trustees of the village or 
incorporated town to which such territory is annexed, and the city coun- 
cil of the city or trustees of the village or incorporated town from which 
such territory is taken, or the school authorities of the school district 
or township of which such disconnected territory was a part, as the case 
may be, in such manner as they shall elect; if they cannot agree, then 
the matter shall be determined by the circuit or county court of the 
county in which such municipal corporation may be to which such 
annexation is made by petition of either municipal corporation or of 
any taxpayer of either municipality. The court shall hear and determine 
the matter in a summary manner, without pleadings, and shall pro- 
nounce judgment as the right and equity of the matter may demand. 
If the respective corporate authorities shall agree as to the amount to 
be paid by such enlarged city, town or village, then each shall pass an 
ordinance or a resolution reciting the amount thereof to be paid, a copy 
of which said ordinance or resolution shall be duly certified by the clerk 
of the city, village or incorporated town, to which such territory is 
annexed, and filed with the county clerk of the county wherein such 
enlarged city, town or village may lie, and by him certified to the State 
Auditor of Public Accounts, and which said ordinance or resolution 
shall be final and conclusive in all proceedings as to the amount of in- 
debtedness so to be paid. If a juc! 6 iiient or decree shall be entered by a 
circuit or county court as herein provided, then a certified copy thereof 
shall be made by the clerk of said court, and filed with the clerk of each 
of the said municipal corporations and with the county clerk and by 
the county clerk certified to the State Auditor of Public Accounts, and 



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such judgment shall be final and conclusive in all proceedings as to the 
amount of indebtedness to be paid by each municipality. The State 
Auditor shall not thereafter certify any rate per centum to the county 
clerk, nor shall the county clerk thereafter extend any rate upon the 
taxable property of said annexed territory for the payment of any of 
said bonds or interest thereon so issued by the city, incorporated town 
or village from which it is disconnected. Said enlarged city, town or 
village shall be vested with the title and ownership of all the public and 
school property in such annexed territory, and shall be charged there- 
with in the division of the public pronerty of such dismembered city, 
incorporated town or village, or school district, or township, between 
said municipalities, or between said enlarged city, town or village, and 
any dismembered school district or township as the case may be, and the 
territory not annexed shall be charged with all the public property 
within such territory, and all the public funds in the hands of the cor- 
porate authorities, such division to be agreed upon by the same author- 
ities or settled by the court in the same manner and upon the same basis 
as above provided for in dividing the indebtedness of said dismembered 
municipality or school district or township. 
Approved and in force April 23, 1889. 

CHILD LABOR. 

An Act to regulate the employment of children in the State of Illinois, 
and to provide for the enforcement thereof. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep- 
resented in the General Assembly: That no child under the age of 14 
years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any gainful 
occupation in any theatre, concert hall or place of amusement where 
intoxicating liquors are sold, or in any mercantile institution, store, 
office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, pas- 
senger or freight elevator, factory or workshop or as messenger or driver 
thereof, within this State. That no child under 14 years of age shall be 
employed at any work performed for wages or other compensation, to 
whomsoever payable, during any portion of any month when the public 
schools of any town, township, village or city in which he or she resides 
are in session, nor be employed at any work before the hour of 7 :00 
o'clock in the morning or after the hour of 6:00 o'clock in the evening: 
Provided, that no child shall be allowed to work more than eight hours 
in any one day. 

§ 2. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, agent 
or manager of any firm or corporation employing minors over 14 years 
and under 16 years of age in any mercantile institution, store, office, 
hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theatre, 
concert hall or place of amusement, passenger or freight elevator, factory 
or workshop or as messenger or driver therefor, within this State, to keep 
a register in said mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, 
manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall or 
place of amusement, factory or workshop in which said minors shall be 



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employed or permitted or suffered to work, in which register shall be 
recorded the name, age and place of residence of every child employed 
or suffered or permitted to work therein, or as messenger or ^ driver 
therefor, over the age of 14 and under the age of 16 years; and it shall 
be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, of 
any firm or corporation to hire or employ, or to permit or suffer to work 
in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing 
establishment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall or place of amuse- 
ment, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or as mes- 
senger or driver therefor, any child under the age of 16 years and 
over 14 years of age, unless there is first produced and placed on file 
in such mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufac- 
turing establishment, bowling alley, factory or workshop, theatre, concert 
hall or place of amusement, an age and school certificate approved as 
hereinafter provided. 

§ 3. Every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of a corpo- 
ration employing or permitting or suffering to work five or more children 
under the age of 16 years and over the age of 14 in any mercantile 
institution, store, office, laundry, hotel, manufacturing establishment, 
factory or workshop, shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place 
in every room in which such help is employed, or permitted or suffered 
to work, a list containing the name, age and place of residence of every 
person under the age of 16 years employed, permitted or suffered to 
work in such room. 

§ 4. iS T o child under 16 years of age and over 14 years of age shall 
be employed in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, 
manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall, or 
place of amusement, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, 
or as messenger or driver therefor, unless there is first produced and 
placed on file in such mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, 
manufacturing establishment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall or 
place of amusement, factory or workshop, and accessible to the State 
Factory Inspector, assistant factory inspector or deputy factory inspector, 
an age and school certificate as hereinafter prescribed; and unless there 
is kept on file and produced on demand of said inspectors of factories 
a complete and correct list of all the minors under the age of 16 years 
so employed who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences, 
unless such child is attending night school as hereinafter provided. 

§ 5. An age and school certificate shall be approved only by the 
superintendent of schools, or by a person authorized by him in writing; 
or where there is no superintendent of schools, by a person authorized 
by the school board : Provided, that the superintendent or principal of 
a parochial school shall have the right to approve an age and school 
certificate and shall have the same rights and powers as the superin- 
tendent of public schools to administer the oaths herein provided for 
children attending parochial schools: Provided, further, that no mem- 
ber of a school board or other person authorized as aforesaid shall have 
authority to approve such certificates of any child then in or about to 
enter his own establishment, or the employment of a firm or corporation 



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of which he is a member, officer or employe. The person approving 
these certificates shall have authority to administer the oath provided 
herein, but no fee shall be charged therefor. It shall be the duty of 
the school board or local school authorities to designate a place (con- 
nected with their offices, when practicable) where certificates shall be 
issued and recorded, and to establish and maintain the necessary records 
and clerical service for carrying out the provisions of this Act, 

§ 6. An age and school certificate shall not be approved unless satis- 
factory evidence is furnished by the last school census, the certificate 
of birth or baptism of such child, the register of birth of such child 
with a town or city clerk, or by the records of the public • or parochial 
schools, that such child is of the age stated in the certificate : Provided, 
that in cases arising wherein the above proof is not obtainable, the 
parent or guardian of the child shall make an oath before the juvenile 
or county court as to the age of such child, and the court may issue to 
such child an age certificate as sworn to. 

§ 7. The age and school certificate of a child under 16 years of age 
shall not be approved and signed until he presents to the person author- 
ized to approve and sign the name, a school attendance certificate, as 
hereinafter prescribed, duly filled out and signed. A duplicate of such 
age and school certificate shall be filled out and shall be forwarded to 
the State Factory Inspector's office. Any explanatory matter may be 
permitted with such certificate in the discretion of the school board or 
superintendent of schools. The employment and the age and school 
certificates shall be separately printed and shall be filled out, signed and 
held or surrendered as indicated in the following forms : 

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE. 



(name of school). (city or town and date). 

This certifies of the , can read and 

(name of minor). (grade), 

write legibly simple sentences. 

This also certifies that according to the records of this school, and in my 

belief, the said • was born at 

(name of minor). (name of city or town). 

in on and is now 

(name of county). (date). (number of years and months), 

old. 



(name of parent or guardian) . 

(residence). 



(signature of teacher). (grade). 

Correct 

(name of principal) . 



(name of school) 



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EVENING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE. 



(date). 

This certifies that is registered in and regularly 

(name of minor). 

attends the evening school. 

This also certifies that according to the records of my school and in my 

belief the said was born at 

(name of minor). (name of city or town). 

on the day of , and is now 

(year) . (number of years and months) . 

old. 



(Name of parent or guardian) . 
(Residence). 
(Signature of teacher). 
(Signature of principal). 



AGE AND SCHOOL CERTIFICATE. 

This certifies that I am of 

(father, mother, custodian or guardian) (name of minor) 

and that was born at in the 

(he or she) (name of town or city) 

and on the 

(name of county, if known) (state or county of) (day of birth and 

and is now old. 

year of birth ) . ( nn inber of years and months ) . 



(Signature of parent, custodian or guardian) 



(City or town and date). 

There personally appeared before me the above named 

(name of person signing) . 

and made oath that the foregoing certificate by signed is true 

(him or her). 

to the best of knowledge. I hereby approve the foregoing cer- 

(his or her). 

tificate of , height , weight 

(name of child) (feet and inches). (pounds) 

complexion hair , having no sufficient reason to 

(fair or dark). (color). 

doubt that is of the age herein certified. 

(he or she). 

Owner of Certificate. This certificate belongs to 

(name of child in whose 

and is to be surrendered to whenever 

behalf it is drawn). (him or her). 

leaves the service of the corporation or employer holding the 

(he or she), 
same; but if not claimed by said child within 30 days from such time it shall 
be returned to the superintendent of schools, or where there is no superin- 
tendent of schools, to the school board. 



(Signature of person authorized to approve and 
sign, with official character authority). 



(Town or city and date) 



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In the case of a child who cannot read at sight and write legibly 
simple sentences, the certificate shall continue as follows, after the word 
sentences : 

"I hereby certify that is regularly attending the 

(he or she). (name of 



public or parochial evening school). 

This certificate shall continue in force just as long as the regular 
attendance of said child at said evening school is certified weekly by 
the teacher and principal of said school. 

In any city or town in which there is no public or parochial evening 
school, an age and school certificate shall not be approved for a child 
under the age of 16 years who can not read at sight and write legibly 
simple sentences. When the public or parochial evening schools are not 
in session an age and school certificate shall not be approved for any 
child who can not read at sight and write legibly simple sentences. The 
certificate of the principle of a public or parochial school shall be prima 
facie evidence as to the literacy or illiteracy of the child. 

§ 8. No person shall employ any minor over 14 years of age and 
under sixteen years, and no parent, guardian or custodian shall permit 
to be employed any such minor under his control, who cannot read at 
sight and write legibly simple sentences, while a public evening school 
is maintained in the town or city in which such minor resides, unless 
such minor is a regular attendant at such evening school. 

§ 9. The State Inspector of Factories, his assistants or deputies shall 
visit all mercantile institutions, stores, offices, laundries, manufacturing 
establishments, bowling alleys, theatres, concert halls or places of amuse- 
ment, factories or workshops, and all other places where minors are or 
may be employed, in this State, and ascertain whether any minors are 
employed contrary to the provisions of this Act. Inspectors of factories 
may require that age and school certificates, and all lists of minors 
employed in such factories, workshops, mercantile institutions, and all 
other places where minors are employed as provided for in this Act, 
shall be produced for their inspection on demand: And, provided, 
further, that upon written complaint to the school board or local school 
authorities of any city, town, district or municipality, that any minor 
(whose name shall be given in such complaint) is employed in any 
mercantile institution, store, . office, laundry, manufacturing establish- 
ment, bowling alley, theatre, concert hall or place of amusement, pas- 
senger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, or as messenger or 
driver therefor, contrary to the provisions of this Act, it shall be the 
duty of such school board or local authority to report the same to the 
State Inspector of Factories. 

§ 10. No person under the age of 16 years shall be employed or 
suffered or permitted to work at any gainful occupation more than 
forty-eight hours in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any 
one day ; or before the hours of 7 :00 o'clock in the morning or after 
the hour of 7 :00 o'clock in the evening. Every employer shall post in 
a conspicuous place in every room where such minors are employed a 
printed notice stating the hours required of them each day of the week, 



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the hours of commencing and stopping work and the hours when the 
time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begins and ends. 
The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the State Inspector 
of Factories, and the employment of any such minor for longer time in 
any day so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section. 

§ 11. No child under the age of 16 years shall be employed at 
sewing belts, or to assist in sewing belts, in any capacity whatever; nor 
shall any child adjust any belt to any machinery; they shall not oil or 
assist in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery; they shall not operate 
or assist in operating circular or band saws, wood-shapers, wood- 
jointers, planers, sandpaper or wood-polishing machinery, emery or 
polishing wheels used for polishing metal, wood-turning or boring 
machinery, stamping machines in sheet metal and tinware manufactur- 
ing, stamping machines in washer and nut factories, operating corru- 
gating rolls, such as are used in roofing factories, nor shall they be 
employed in operating any passenger or freight elevators, steam boiler, 
steam machinery, or other steam generating apparatus, or as pin boys 
in any bowling alleys; they shall not operate, or assist in operating, 
dough brakes, or cracker machinery of any description; wire or iron 
straightening machinery, nor shall they operate or assist in operating 
rolling mill machinery, punches or shears, washing, grinding or mixing 
mill or calendar rolls in rubber, manufacturing, nor shall they operate 
or assist in operating laundry machinery ; nor shall children be employed 
in any capacity in preparing any composition in which dangerous or 
poisonous acids are used, and they shall not be employed in any capacity 
in the manufacture of paints, colors or white lead; nor shall they be 
employed in any capacity whatever in operating or assisting to operate 
any passenger or freight elevator; nor shall they be employed in any 
capacity whatever in the manufacture of goods for immoral purposes, or 
any other employment that may be considered dangerous to their lives 
or limbs, or where their health may be injured or morals depraved; nor 
in any theatre, concert hall, or place of amusement wherein intoxicating 
liquors are sold; nor shall females under 16 years or age be employed 
in any capacity where such employment compels them to remain standing 
constantly. 

§ 12. The presence of any person under the age of 16 years in any 
manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall constitute prima 
facie evidence of his or her employment therein. 

§ 13. It shall be the special duty of the State Factory Inspector to 
enforce the provisions of this Act, and to prosecute all violations of the 
same before any magistrate or any court of competent jurisdiction in 
this State. It shall be the duty of the State Factory Inspector, assistant 
State factory inspectors and deputy State factory inspectors, under the 
supervision and direction of the State Factory Inspector, and they are 
hereby authorized and empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable 
times, and as often as possible, all places covered by this Act. 

§ 14. Whoever having under his control a child under the age of 
16 years, permits such child to be employed in violation of the provi- 
sions of this Act, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than $5.00 



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nor more than $25.00, and shall stand committed until such fine and 
costs are paid. A failure to produce to the inspector of factories, his 
assistants or deputies, any age and school certificates, or lists required 
by this Act, shall constitute a violation of this Act, and the person 
failing, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $5.00 nor more 
than $50.00 for each offense. Every person authorized to sign the 
certificate prescribed by section 7 of this Act, who certifies to any mate- 
rially false statement therein, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of 
this Act, and upon conviction be fined not less than $5.00 nor more 
than $100.00 for each offense, and shall stand committed until such 
fine and costs are paid. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or 
manager, superintendent or foreman, of any firm or corporation, whether 
for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself, or through 
sub-agents or foreman, superintendent or manager, who shall violate 
or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, or shall refuse 
admittance to premises, or otherwise obstruct the factory inspector, 
assistant factory inspector, or deputy factory inspector, in the perform- 
ance of their duties, as prescribed by this Act, shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less 
than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense, and stand committed 
until such fine and costs are paid. 
Approved May 15, 1903. 



DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND CHILDREN. 

An Act to enable school directors and boards of education to establish 
and maintain classes and schools for deaf and dumb and blind chil- 
dren, and providing for the payment from the State treasury of the 
excess cost of maintaining and operating such classes and schools over 
the cost of maintaining and operating elementary schools for normal 
children. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That boards of education and 
school directors shall be empowered to establish and maintain classes 
and schools for deaf and dumb and blind children. 

§ 2. Such boards of education may acquire sites for such schools 
anywhere within the counties in which said cities are situated in the 
same manner as is provided in the case of the acquirement of public 
school sites in said cities, and authority is hereby expressly granted for 
this purpose. 

§ 3. The board of education establishing and maintaining such 
classes, school or schools, may also employ a superintendent and all 
other necessary officers, agents and teachers for such schools, and shall 
prescribe the method of discipline and the course of instruction therein, 
and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as are 



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prescribed by law for the establishment, maintenance and management 
of other classes and schools, and, in addition thereto, shall have all 
powers necessary to carry the terms and provisions of this Act into 
operation and effect. 

§ 4. No person shall be employed to teach any class or classes in 
such school or schools who shall not have first obtained a certificate of 
qualification for teaching in such school or schools, as provided by law. 
All classes or schools maintained for the deaf, shall be established for 
the benefit of deaf children between the ages of 3 and 21 years. But 
no person shall be authorized or employed to teach the deaf, who shall 
not have received instruction in the methods of teaching the deaf for a 
term of not less than one year. 

§ 5. The board of education shall keep an accurate, detailed and 
separate account of all moneys paid out by it for the maintenance of 
such classes and schools, and for the instruction and care of the pupils 
attending them, and shall report the same to the Board of Administra- 
tion for approval, on vouchers prescribed by said board, on or before 
the third Monday in August in each year, together with the excess of 
cost for each and every such pupil for each school year ending in June, 
over the last ascertained average cost to such board of education for 
the instruction of normal children in the elementary public schools of 
the city for a like period of time of attendance, as such excess shall be 
determined and computed by said board of education. 

§ 6. The aggregate excess cost of the maintenance of such classes 
and schools as determined, computed and reported by the board of 
education as provided in section 6 of this Act shall be, and the same 
is hereby made a charge against the State of Illinois and such excess 
cost shall be paid annually to such board of education on the warrant 
of the Auditor of Public Accounts out of any money in the treasury 
appropriated for such purposes, on presentation of proper vouchers 
approved by the Board of Administration : Provided, however, that 
such excess cost for each pupil shall not exceed the following amounts: 

For deaf and dumb pupils $110 00 a pupil 

For blind pupils 160 00 a pupil 

§ 7. All classes and schools established according to any of the provi- 
sions of this Act shall be subject to the supervision of the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. 

§ 8. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and 
directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer on or before the 
first Monday in September of each year for the respective sums of 
excess cost theretofore reported to him, as provided in section 7 of this 
Act, upon the order of the Board of Administration. 

Approved June 2, 1911. 



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DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 



An Act to enable school directors and boards of education, to establish 
and maintain classes and schools for delinquent children committed 
by courts of competent jurisdiction, and providing for the payment 
from the State treasury of the excess cost of maintaining and operat- 
ing the said classes and schools over the cost of maintaining and 
operating elementary schools for normal children. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: • That boards of education and 
school directors shall be empowered to establish and maintain classes 
and schools for delinquent children, committed by courts of competent 
jurisdiction. 

§ 2. Such boards of education may acquire site or sites for such 
schools anywhere within the counties in which said cities are situated 
in the same manner as is provided in the case of the acquirement of 
public school sites in said cities, and authority is hereby expressly 
granted for this purpose. 

§ 3. The board of education establishing and maintaining such 
classes, school or schools, may also employ a superintendent and all 
other necessary officers, agents and teachers for such schools, and shall 
prescribe the method of discipline and the course of instruction therein, 
and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as are 
prescribed by law for the establishment, maintenance and management 
of other classes and schools, and, in addition thereto, shall have ail 
powers to carry the terms and provisions of this Act into operation and 
effect. 

§ 4. No person shall be employed to teach any class or classes in such 
school or schools who shall not have first obtained a certificate of qualifi- 
cation for teaching in such school or schools as provided by law. 

§ 5. The. board of education shall keep an accurate, detailed and sepa- 
rate account of all moneys paid out by it for the maintenance of such 
classes and schools, and for the instruction and care of the pupils 
attending them, and shall report the same to the Board of Administra- 
tion for approval, on voucher forms prescribed by said board, on or 
before the third Monday in Augusi of each year, together with the 
excess of cost for each and every such pupil for each school year ending 
in June, over the last ascertained average cost to such board of educa- 
tion for the instruction of normal children in the elementary public 
schools in the city for a like period of time of attendance as such excess 
shall be determined and computed by said board of education. 

§ 6. The aggregate excess cost of the maintenance of such classes 
and schools as determined, computed and reported by the board of educa- 
tion as provided in section 5 of this Act shall be and the same is hereby 
made a charge against the State of Illinois and such excess cost shall 
be paid annually to such board of education on the warrant of the 
Auditor of Public Accounts out of any money in the treasury appro- 



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priated for such purposes, on presentation of proper vouchers approved 
by the Board of Administration: Provided, however, that such excess 
cost for each pupil shall not exceed the following amount: 
For delinquent children • $190.00 a pupil 

§ 7. All classes and schools established according to any of the provi- 
sions of this Act shall be subject to the supervision of the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. 

§ 8. The Auditor of Public Accounts is herebv authorized and 
directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer on or before the 
first Monday in September of each year for the respective sums of 
excess cost therefore reported to him, as provided in section 5 of this 
Act, upon the order of the Board of Administration. 

Approved June 2, 1911. 



ELECTIONS IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS. 

An Act to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result 
thereof for town, school township and school district purposes, where 
*uch town, school township or school district lies wholly within or 
partly within and partly without any city, village or incorporated town 
which has adopted or may adopt an Act entitled "An Act regulating 
the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, 
villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 
1885, in force July 1, 1885. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That in all elections hereafter 
held for town, school township or school district purposes in any town, 
school township or school district lying wholly within or partly within 
and partly without any city, village or incorporated town which has or 
mav adopt an Act entitled "An Act regulating the holding of elections 
and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated 
towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, 
the legal authorities of such town, school township or school district, 
shall locate the polling place or places, appoint the judges and clerks, 
and otherwise conduct the election in that portion or part of the town, 
school township or school district that lies without such city, village or 
incorporated town, in the manner provided by law, except as hereinafter 
provided, but no one residing without such city, village or incorporated 
town shall vote at any polling place within, nor shall any one residing 
within vote at any polling place without, and the votes cast at the polling 
place or places without such city, village or incorporated town, shall be 
canvassed, certified and returned as is now provided by law in such 
cases, and in addition thereto a complete abstract of the votes cast shall 
be made, certified and returned to the election commissioners of such 
city, village or incorporated town. 



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§ 2. In all that part or portion of such town, school township or 
school district that lies within such city, village or incorporated town, 
or where the same lies wholly within any such city, village or incorpo- 
rated town, the election shall be conducted by the election commis- 
sioners of such city, village or incorporated town in strict conformity 
with the said Act approved June 19, 1885, mentioned in section 1 of 
this Act, and when partly within and partly without any such city, 
village or incorporated town the election commissioners shall certify 
the returns received by them from the polling place or places without 
such city, village or incorporated town, to the proper officer or officers; 
and all the returns so certified and returned by the election commis- 
sioners shall be canvassed, together with the returns certified from poll- 
ing places within, by the same canvassing board, the results thereof 
declared, and certificates of election shall be issued thereon, the same 
as if all such votes had been cast in, certified and returned from such 
city, village or incorporated town : Provided, it shall not be necessary 
under this Act for the election commissioners to make or cause to be 
made a revision of the registry for special elections, or elections to fill 
a vacancy in a single office. 

§ 3. An officer who shall willfully refuse to perform any duty 
required by this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 
liable to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five 
hundred dollars, and on conviction shall be removed from office, by 
the order of the court wherein such fine is assessed, and anv person or 
combination of persons who shall under any pretense whatever attempt 
to establish a rival polling place, or otherwise attempt to obstruct or 
interfere with any election held or to be held under this Act, shall be 
guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be imprisoned in the peniten- 
tiary not less than one nor more than three years. 

Approved March 23, 1887. 



ELECTIONS — JUDGES AND CLERKS. 

An Act to provide for the compensation of judges and clerks of elec- 
tion at elections at which trustees of schools and school directors are 
elected under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate 
the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, 
villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 
1885 . 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That at all elections held under 
the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the holding of 
elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorpo- 
rated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, and those amenda- 



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tory and supplemental thereto, at which any trustee of schools may have 
been heretofore or shall hereafter be elected, the expenses of such elec- 
tion shall be paid out of the treasury of such city, village or incorpo- 
rated town. 

§ 2. That all elections held under the provisions of said Acts, at 
which a school director is elected, the expenses of such election shall 
be paid out of any funds belonging or appertaining to the district for 
which such director is elected. 

§ 3. The corporate authorities of cities, villages, incorporated towns 
and school districts are hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes 
for the purpose of paying election expenses. 

Approved June 3, 1889. 



EMINENT DOMAIN. 

An Act enabling trustees, boards of education, and other corporate 
authorities of universities, colleges, township high schools, and all 
other educational institutions established and supported by this State, 
or by a township, to exercise the right of eminent domain. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any lot or parcel 
of land shall be needed as a site for a building to be erected for any 
university, college, township high school, or other educational institu- 
tion, established and supported by this State or by a township therein, 
and compensation for such lot or parcel of ground cannot be agreed 
upon between the owner or owners thereof and the trustees, board of 
education or other corporate authority of such university, college, town- 
ship high school, or other educational institution so needing such lot 
or parcel of land for such site, then such trustees, board of education 
or other corporate authority of such university, college, township high 
school or other educational institution shall have the power and it shall 
be their duty to proceed to have such compensation determined in the 
matter which may be at the time provided by law for the exercise of 
the right of eminent domain. 

Approved May 20, 1907. 



PENSION FUND. 

An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a public 
school employes pension fund in cities having a population exceeding 
100,000 inhabitants. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education in 
cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants shall have the 



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power, and it shall be their duty, to create a public school employes' 
pension fund, which shall consist of amounts retained from the salaries 
or wages of employes, as hereinafter provided, which amounts shall be 
deducted in equal monthly installments from such salaries or wages, 
at the regular time or times of the payment thereof, and all moneys 
derived from any and all other sources whatever. 

§ 2. The term "employe" under this Act shall include only engi- 
neers, janitors and office employes in the employ of said board of educa- 
tion, earning over $49.00 per month, and this Act shall apply only to 
those employes who voluntarily accept and agree to comply" with its 
provisions. Any employe, a part of whose salary may be set apart 
hereafter to provide for the fund created by this Act, may be released 
from the necessity of making further payments to said fund, by filing 
a written notice of his or her desire to withdraw from complying with 
the provisions of this Act, with the board of trustees hereinafter men- 
tioned, which said resignation shall operate and go into effect immedi- 
ately upon its receipt by said board of trustees. 

§ 3. The city treasurer, subject to the control and direction of the 
board of trustees hereinafter mentioned, shall be the custodian of said 
pension fund, and shall secure and safely keep the same, as well as all 
funds in his possession heretofore contributed under the provisions of 
any law relating to the retirement or pensioning of public school 
employes, and shall keep books and accounts concerning said fund, in 
such manner as may be prescribed by said board of trustees, which said 
books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of said 
board of trustees, or of any member thereof. The city treasurer shall, 
within ten days after his election or appointment, execute a bond to the 
city, with good and sufficient sureties, in which penal sum as the said 
board of trustees shall direct, which said bond shall be approved by the 
said board of trustees, and shall be conditioned for the faithful per- 
formance of the duties of said office, and that he will safely keep and 
well and truly account for all moneys belonging to said pension fund, 
and all interest thereon, which may come into his hands as such treas- 
urer, and that upon the expiration of his term of office, or upon his 
retirement therefrom for any cause, he will surrender and deliver over 
to his successor, all unexpended moneys, with such interest as he may 
have received thereon ; and all property which may have come into his 
hands as treasurer of said pension fund. Such bond shall be filed in 
the office of the clerk of said city, and in case of a breech of the same, 
or the conditions thereof, suit may be brought on the same in the name 
of the said city for the use of said board of trustees, or of any person 
or persons injured by such breech. 

§ 4. The board of education shall, in the month of September imme- 
diately following the passage of this Act, arrange for the election of a 
board of trustees of said pension fund, composed of six members, to be 
chosen as hereinafter provided, which election shall be held not later 
than October 30, of the same year. Said board of trustees shall have 
power, and it shall be its duty, to administer said fund and to carry 



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out the provisions of this Act, and for the purpose of enabling such 
board of trustees to perform the duties imposed and exercise the powers 
granted by this Act, the board of trustees shall be, and is hereby declared 
to be, a body politic and corporate. 

§ 5. The said board of trustees shall consist of the president and 
secretary of the board of education and four employes contributing to 
said fund. The president and secretary of the board of education shall 
be ex officio members of said board of trustees; and the other members 
shall be elected by ballot by the employes contributing to said fund, at 
the time and for the terms respectively as follows, to-wit: At the first 
election the contributors of said fund shall elect two of their number 
to serve for the term of one year, and two to serve for the term of two 
years, and annually thereafter said contributors shall elect two of their 
number to hold office for the term of two years. ■ 

§ 6. Whenever any elective member of the board of trustees shall 
cease to be in the employ of said board of education his or her member- 
ship in said board of trustees shall, cease. Said board of trustees shall 
have power and it shall be its duty : 

(1) To determine the amount which shall be deducted from the 
salaries or wages paid to employes for the benefit of said pension fund: 
Provided, the amount of -such deduction shall not be less than twelve 
dollars nor more than forty-eight dollars per year, for each employe: 
And, provided, further, that no deduction shall be made from the 
salary or wages of any employe who received less than forty-nine dollars 
per month, nor shall any one who receives a salary of not less than 
forty-nine dollars per month participate in said fund. 

(2) To make all payments from said pension fund, pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act. 

(3) To administer and invest in their discretion any part of the 
said pension fund remaining in the hands of said treasurer. 

(4) To pay all necessary expenses in connection with the adminis- 
tration of said fund and carrying out the provisions of this Act for 
which provision is not otherwise made. 

(5) To determine the amount to be paid as benefits or annuities 
under this Act and to increase or reduce the same in their discretion: 
Provided, that no benefit or annuity shall exceed six hundred dollars 
per year. 

(6) To take by gift, grant or bequest, or otherwise any money or 
property of any kind, and hold the same for the benefit of said fund. 

(7) To purchase, hold, sell or assign and transfer any of the securi- 
ties in which said fund, or any part thereof, may be invested. 

(8) To exempt any of said employes from the operation of this Act, 
whenever in their judgment, the interest of said fund shall render such 
exemption necessary and advisable. 

(9) To fill any vacancy or vacancies in said board of trustees until 
the next annual election, as hereinbefore provided. 



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(10) To make and establish all such rules for the transaction of 
their business, and such other rules, regulations and by-laws as may 
be necessary for the proper administration of said fund committed to 
their charge, and the performance of the duties imposed upon them. 

(11) They shall keep a full and complete record of their meetings 
and of the receipts and disbursements on account of such fund, and 
also complete lists of all contributors to said fund, and of all annui- 
tants receiving benefits therefrom, and such other records as in their 
judgment shall seem necessary, and shall make and publish annually a 
full and complete statement of their financial transactions. 

(12) Said board shall hear and determine all applications for bene- 
fits under this Act, and shall have power to suspend any annuity when- 
ever, in their judgment, the disability of such beneficiary has ceased, or 
for other good cause. 

(13) To compromise, settle or liquidate any claim against said 
fund, by surrendering the contribution or contributions of any indi- 
vidual or individuals, and make the necessary rules, prescribing the 
terms under which such settlements may be made, providing there shall 
be no rule allowing restitution of deductions from salaries after the 
contributor shall have become eligible to an annuity under this Act. 

§ 7. Any contributor to said fund who shall have attained the age 
of fifty-five years, and shall have been in the service of said board of 
education for a period of ten years, and shall have contributed to said 
fund for the same period, shall have the right to retire and become a 
beneficiary under this Act and to receive such benefit or annuity from 
said fund as shall be determined by said board of trustees, which said 
benefit or annuity shall be proportionate to the amount of the contribu- 
tions of such employe. 

§ 8. Upon the death of any contributor, who is not nor has been a 
beneficiary under this Act, the said board of trustees may pay an 
amount not exceeding one year's benefits to the widow, if any, of such 
deceased contributor, and if there be no widow said board of trustees 
may expend said amount for the benefit of the minor children, if any, 
of such deceased contributor. 

§ 9. Any employe who has heretofore retired from service, pursuant 
to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the forma- 
tion and disbursement of a public school teachers' and public school 
employes' pension and retirement fund in cities having a population 
exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants," approved May 31, 1895, 
in force July 1, 1895, and has contributed to the fund created by said 
last mentioned Act, shall be entitled to such portion of the full annuity 
provided for under this Act as the board of trustees may determine. 

§ 10. All sums heretofore contributed by employes under the provi- 
sions of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the formation and 
disbursement of a public school teachers' and public school employes' 
pension and retirement fund in cities having a population exceeding 



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one hundred thousand inhabitants/' approved May 31, 1895, in force 
July 1, 1895, shall be set apart and held by said city treasurer as a 
part of the fund created by this Act, and subject to the provisions of 
this Act. 

§ 11. Any person who has been an employe of said board of educa- 
tion for a period of twenty years or more, and is a contributor to said 
fund, may retire from the service of said board of education upon 
sixty days' notice, to be given to said board of trustees (unless such 
notice is waived by said board of trustees) and become an annuitant 
under this Act. 

§ 12. Any person who has contributed to said fund for a period 
of ten years or more may retire from the service of said board of educa- 
tion on account of serious disability, rendering him -or her unable to 
properly discharge his or her duties, upon one year's notice, to be given 
to said board of trustees (unless such notice is waived by said board 
of trustees) and may become an annuitant under this Act, and shall 
thereupon be entitled to receive for a period of two years (which may 
be extended upon proof of continued disability), such part of the 
annuity then allowed under the rules of said trustees, as said trustees 
may determine. 

§ 13. Any employe who has been contributing to said fund for less 
than ten years, and who shall be dismissed or resign from the service 
of said board of education, may, upon application made within three 
months after the date of such dismissal or resignation, receive one-half 
of the total amount paid into said fund by such person so dismissed. 

§ 14. The president and secretary of the board of education shall 
certify monthly to the treasurer of all amounts deducted in accordance 
with the provisions of this Act from the salaries paid by the board of 
education, which amounts, as well as all other sums contributed to said 
fund under the provisions of this Act, shall be set apart and held by 
said treasurer for the purpose hereinbefore specified, subject to the order 
of said board of trustees, and shall be paid out upon warrants signed 
by the president and secretary of said board of trustees. 

§ 15. All annuities granted under the provisions of this Act shall 
be exempt from attachment and garnishment process, and no annuitant 
shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her annuity, either by 
way of mortgage or otherwise. 

§ 16. All elections or appointments of employes by said board of 
education shall be made pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled 
"An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force 
March 20, 1895, such election or appointment to be permanent during 
efficiency and good behavior, and no employe who has contributed to 
said fund shall be removed or discharged, except for cause, upon written 
charges, which shall be investigated and determined by the board of 
education, whose action and decision in the matter shall be final. 

§ 17. Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, avoid or seek 
to avoid any or all of the provisions of this Act, or who shall, directly 
or indirectly, interfere with or obstruct the enforcement of any of the 
provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on 



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conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars 
and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or both such fine or 
imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 

§ 18. All laws and parts of laws "which are inconsistent with this 
Act, or any provisions thereof, are hereby repealed. 

Approved May 15, 1903. 



FEES AND SALARIES. 



An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties 
of this State with reference thereto. 

§ 27. County superintendents elected hereafter shall receive for their 
services in counties which, according to the census of 1900, contained 
a population not exceeding 12,000, $1,250 per annum; in counties which, 
according to the census of L900, contained a population of more than 
12,000 and not exceeding 20,000, $1,500 per annum; in counties which, 
according to the census of L900, contained a population of more than 
20,000 and not exceeding 28,000, $1,800 per annum; in counties which, 
according to the census of L900, contained a population of more than 
28,000 and not exceeding 36,000, $2,000 per annum : in counties which, 
according to the census of L900, contained a population of more than 
36,000 and not exceeding 50,000, $2,250 per annum; in counties which, 
according to the census of 1900, contained a population of more than 
50,000 and not exceeding 75,000, $2,500 per annum; in counties which, 
according to the census of 1900, contained a population of more than 
75,000 and not exceeding 100,000, $2,750 per annum, and in counties 
which, according to the census of L900, contained a population of more 
than 100,000, $7,500 per annum, payable quarterly from the State 
school fund: Provided, however, that the board of supervisors or board 
of county commissioners may allow additional compensation for such 
services, payable quarterly Prom the county treasury. The Auditor in 
making his warrant to any county for the amount due it from the State 
schoolfund, shall deduct from it the several amounts for which war- 
rants have been issued to the county superintendent of said county since 
the preceding apportionmenl of the State school fund. 

Approvki) June 12, 1909. 



HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

A\ Act to authorize the orga/nizafion of high school districts. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by I In 1 People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That any school township that 
contains a school district having a population of 1,000 or more and 



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not exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, whether operating nnder the general 
school law or governed by virtue of a special Act, may be organized 
into a high school district by submitting the proposition to a vote of 
the people at a general or special election. 

§ 2. Upon the receipt of a petition signed by fifty or more legal 
voters, the county superintendent of schools of the county in which 
the township or the greater part of the territory described in the peti- 
tion is situated, shall forthwith order an election to be held for the 
purpose of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to establish a 
township high school, by posting notices for at least ten days in ten 
of the most public places throughout the township or territory, whien 
notices may be substantially as follows : 

NOTICE OF ELECTION. 

Notice is hereby given that on the 

day of , 1 . . . , an election will be held at 

- . for the purpose of voting "for" or 

"against" the proposition to establish a township high school for the benefit 

of the inhabitants of township (or territory) 

The polls will be opened at o'clock m., and closed at 

o'clock . . . .m. 

A B 

County Superintendent. 

In townships divided equally by county lines, the elections shall be 
in charge of the superintendent of schools of the CQunty in which the 
sixteenth section is situate. 

§ 3. The elections required by this Act shall be conducted by the 
trustees of schools, boards of education or boards of directors, desig- 
nated by the county superintendent of schools, to whom all returns shall 
be made within five days. The ballots shall be in substantially the 
following form, to-wit : 



i 

For the establishment of a township high school 



Against the establishment of a township high school 



The voter shall make an X or cross-mark in the square following and 
opposite the proposition favored, and the ballot shall be so counted. 

§ 4. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of establishing 
a township high school, the county superintendent of schools shall forth- 
with order an election to be held within thirty days, for the purpose of 
selecting a township high school board of education, to consist of a 
president and six members, by posting notices for at least ten days in 
ten of the most public places throughout the .township or territory, 
which notices may be substantially as follows : 



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NOTICE OF ELECTION. 



Notice is hereby given that on , the day 

f , an election will be held at 

for the purpose of electing a township high school board of education, to con- 
sist of a president and six members. The polls will be opened at o'clock 

m., and closed at o'clock m. 

A B 

County Superintendent. 

Two of the members shall be elected for one year, two for two years, 
and two for three years, and each year thereafter two members shall be 
elected to serve for three years. The president shall be elected annually. 
All subsequent elections shall be held on the second Saturday of April, 

annually. 

8 5. For the purpose of supporting a high school, the township or 
territory for the benefit of which a high school is established under the 
provisions of this Act, shall be regarded as a school district, and the 
board of education thereof shall, in all respects, have the powers and 
discharge the duties of boards of education elected under the general 

school law. 

§ 6. The inhabitants of any contiguous and compact territory, 
whether in the same or different townships, upon a petition signed by 
at least fifty legal voters and an affirmative vote in such territory, may 
establish, in the manner provided by this Act, a township high school 
for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory described in the 

petition. --,... , . , ^ ^ 

§ 7. A school district or any part thereof, adjoining a high school 
district organized pursuant to this Act, may be annexed to such high 
school district and become a part thereof, by a concurrent resolution 
adopted by the boards in each district. Before the resolution shall take 
effect, however, the proposition shall be submitted, under the provisions 
of this Act, to a vote of the people of the territory desiring annexation, 
and a majority of the votes cast shall be required in order to adopt such 
resolution. 

Approved June 5, 1911. 



HUMANE INSTRUCTION. 

An Act to provide for moral and humane education in the public schools 
and to prohibit certain practices inimical thereto. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of every 
teacher of a public school in this State to teach to all the pupils thereof 
honesty, kindness, justice and moral courage for the purpose of lessen- 
ing crime and raising the standard of good citizenship. 

§ 2. In every public school within this State not less than one-half 
hour of each week, during the whole of each term of school, shall be 
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humane treatment and protection of birds and animals, and the impor- 
tant part they fulfill in the economy of nature. It shall be optional 
with each teacher whether it shall be a consecutive half-hour or a few 
minutes daily, or whether such teaching shall be through humane read- 
ing, daily incidents, stories, personal example or in connection with 
nature-story. 

§ 3. No experiment upon any living creature for the purpose of 
demonstration in any study shall be made in any public school of this 
State. No animal provided by, nor killed in the presence of any pupil 
of a public school, shall be used for dissection in such school, and in 
no case shall dogs or cats be killed for such purposes. Dissection of 
dead animals, or any parts thereof, shall be confined to the class room 
and shall not be practiced in the presence of any pupil not engaged in 
the study to be illustrated thereby. 

§ 4. The Superintendent of Public Instruction of this State and the 
committee in charge of preparing the program for each annual meeting 
of the Illinois State Teachers" Association shall include therein moral 
and humane education. The superintendent of schools of each county 
and of each city shall include once each year moral and humane, educa- 
tion in the program of the teachers' institute which is held under his or 
her supervision. 

§ 5. The principal or teacher of each public school shall state briefly 
in each of his or her monthly reports whether the provisions of this Act 
have been complied with in the school under his or her control. No 
teacher who knowingly violates any provision of sections 1, 2 or 3 of 
this Act shall be entitled to receive more than 95 per cent of the public 
school moneys that would otherwise be due for services for the month 
in which such provision shall be violated. This Act shall apply to com- 
mon schools only and shall not be construed as requiring religious or 
sectarian teaching. 

Approved June 14, 1909. 



JUVENILE COURTS. 

An Act relating to children who are now or may hereafter become 
dependent, neglected or delinquent, to define these terms, and to pro- 
vide for the treatment, control, maintenance, adoption and guardian- 
ship of the person of such children. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: That all persons under the age 
of 21 years shall, for the purpose of this Act only, be considered wards 
of this State, and their persons shall be subject to the care, guardianship 
and control of the court as hereinafter provided. 

For the purpose of this Act, the words "dependent child" and "neg- 
lected child" shall mean any male child who, while under the age of 
17 years, or any female child who, while under the age of 18 years, 



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for any reason, is destitute, homeless or abandoned, or dependent upon 
the public for support; or has not proper parental care or guardian- 
ship; or habitually begs or receives alms; or is found living in any 
house of ill-fame or with any vicious or disreputable person; or has 
a home which, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part 
of its parents, guardian or any other person in whose care it may be, 
is an unfit place for such a child ; and any child who, while under the 
age of 10 years, is found begging, peddling or selling any articles or 
singing or playing any musical instrument for gain upon the street 
or giving any public entertainments or accompanies or is used in aid of 
any person so doing. 

The words "delinquent child" shall mean any male child who, while 
under the age of IT years, or any female child who, while under the 
age of 18 years, violates any law of this State; or is incorrigible, or 
knowingly associates with thieves, vicious or immoral persons; or 
without just cause and without the consent of its parents, guardian 
or custodian absents itself from its home or place of abode, or is 
growing up in idleness or crime; or knowingly frequents a house of 
ill-repute; or knowingly frequents any policy shop or place where any 
gaming device is operated ; or frequents any saloon or dram shop where 
intoxicating liquors are sold; or patronizes or visits any public pool 
room or bucket shop; or wanders about the streets in the night time 
without being on any lawful business or lawful occupation; or habitu- 
ally wanders about any railroad yards or tracks or jumps or attempts 
to jump on any moving train; or enters any car or engine without 
lawful authority; or uses vile, obscene, vulgar, profane or indecent lan- 
guage in any public place or about any school house; or is guilty of 
indecent or lascivious conduct; any child committing any of these acts 
herein mentioned shall be deemed a delinquent child and shall be cared 
for as such in the manner hereinafter provided. 

A disposition of any child under this Act or any evidence given in 
such cause shall not, in any civil, criminal or other cause or proceeding 
whatever in any court, be lawful or proper evidence against such child 
for any purpose whatever, except in subsequent cases against the 
same child, under this Act. The word "child" or "children" may be 
held to mean one or more children, and the word parent or parents may 
be held to mean one or both parent-, when consistent with the intent of 
this Act. The word "association" shall include anv association, insti- 
tution or corporation which include in their purposes the care or dis- 
position of children coming within the meaning of this Act. (As 
amended by an Act approved June 4, 1907.) 

§ 2. The circuit and county courts of the several counties in this 
State shall have original jurisdiction in all cases coming within the 
terms of this Act. In all trials under this Act any person interested 
therein may demand a jury of six. or the judge of his own motion may 
order a jury of the same number, to try the case. 

§ 3. In counties having over 500,000 population the judges of the 
circuit court shall, at such times as they shall determine, designate one 
or more of their number whose duty it shall be to hear all cases coming 



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under this Act. A special court room, to be designated as the juvenile 
court room, shall be provided for the hearing of such cases, and the 
findings of the court shall be entered in a book or books to be kept for 
that purpose and known as the "Juvenile Eecord," and the court may, 
for convenience, be called the "Juvenile Court." 

§ 4. Any reputable person, being a resident of the county, may tile 
with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of the matter, a petition 
in writing, setting forth that a certain child, naming it, within his county, 
not now or hereafter an inmate of a State institution incorporated under 
the laws of this State, except as provided in section 12 and 18 hereof, is 
either dependent, neglected or delinquent as defined in section 1 hereof; 
and that it is for the interest of the child and this State that the child 
be taken from its parent, parents, custodian, or guardian and placed 
under the guardianship of some suitable person to be appointed by the 
court; and that the parent, parents, custodian or guardian of such child, 
are unfit or improper guardians, or are unable or unwilling to care for, 
protect, train, educate, control or discipline such child, or that the parent, 
parents, guardian or custodian consent that such child be taken from 
them. 

The petition shall also set forth, either the name, or that the name is 
unknown to petitioner (a) of the person having the custody of such 
child; and (b) of each of the parents or the surviving parents of a 
legitimate child or of the mother of an illegitimate child; or (c) if it 
allege that both such parents are or such mother is dead, then of the 
guardian, if any of such child; (d) if it allege that both such parents are 
or that such mother is dead and that no guardian of such child is known 
to petitioner, then, of a near relative, or that none such is known to 
petitioner. The petition shall also state the residences of such parties 
so far as the same are known to such petitioner. All persons as named 
in such petition shall be made defendants by name and shall be notified 
of such proceedings of summons if residents of this State in the same 
manner as is now or may hereafter be required in chancery proceedings 
by the laws of this State except only as herein otherwise provided. 

All persons if any who or whose names are stated in the petition to 
be unknown to petitioner, shall be deemed and taken as defendants by 
the name or designation of "all whom it may concern." The petition 
shall be verified by affidavit, which affidavit shall be sufficient upon infor- 
mation and belief. Process shall be issued against all persons made 
parties by the designation of "all whom it may concern," by such 
description, and notice given by publication as is required in this Act 
shall be sufficient to authorize the court to hear and determine the suit 
as though the parties had been sued by their proper names. (As amended 
by an Act approved June 4, 1907.) 

§ 5. The summons shall require the person alleged to have the cus- 
tody of such child to appear with the child at that time and place stated 
in the summons; and shall also require all defendants to be and appear 
and answer the petition on the return day of the summons. The sum- 
mons shall be made returnable at any time within twenty days after the 



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date thereof and may be served by the sheriff, or by any duly appointed 
probation officer, even though such officer be the petitioner. The return 
of such summons with endorsement of service by the sheriff or by such 
probation officer in accordance herewith shall be sufficient proof thereof. 

Whenever it shall appear from the petition or from affidavit filed in 
the cause that any named defendant resides or has gone out of the 
State or on due inquiry can not be found, or is concealed within this 
State or that his place of residence is unknown so that process cannot 
be served upon him, or whenever any person is made defendant under 
the name or designation of "all whom it may concern" the clerk shall 
cause publication to be made once in some newspaper of general circu- 
lation published in his county, and if there be none published in his 
county, then in a newspaper published in the nearest place to his county 
in this State, which shall be substantially as follows : 

A, B, C, D, etc. (here giving the names of such named defendants, if 
any) and to "all whom it may concern" (if there be any defendant 
under such designation) 

Take notice that on the day of , A. D. 190. . ., a petition 

was filed by in the court of county 

to have a certain child, named , declared a (dependent or 

delinquent) and to take from you the custody and guardianship of said 
child (and if the petition prays for. the appointment of a guardian with 
power to consent to adoption, add and to give said child out for adoption). 

Now, unless you appear within twenty days after the date of this 
notice and show cause against such application, the petition shall be 
taken for confessed, and a decree entered. 

Dated (the date of publication). 

E F , 

Clerk. 
and he shall also, within ten days after the publication of such notice, 
send a copy thereof by mail, addressed to such defendants whose place 
of residence is stated in the petition and who shall not have been served 
with summons. Notice given by publication as is required by this Act 
shall be the only publication notice required either in the case of resi- 
dents, non-residents or otherwise. The certificate of the clerk that he 
has sent such notice in pursuance of this section shall be evidence 
thereof. Every defendant who shall be duly summoned shall be held to 
appear and answer either in writing or orally in open court on the 
return day of the summons or if such summons shall be served less than 
one day prior to the return day then on the following day. Every 
defendant who shall be notified by publication as herein provided shall 
be held to appear and answer cither in writing or orally in open court 
within twenty days after the date of the publication notice. The answer 
shall have no greater weight as evidence than the petition. In default 
of an answer at the time or times herein specified or at such further 
time as by order of court may be granted to a defendant, the petition 
may be taken as confessed. 

If a person having the custody or control of the child shall fail, with- 
out reasonable cause, to bring the child into court, he may be proceeded 



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against as in case of contempt of court. In case the summons shall 
be returned not served upon the person having the custody or control of 
such child, or such person fails to obey the same, and in any case when 
it shall be made to appear to the court by affidavit, which may be on 
information and belief that such summons will be ineffectual, to secure 
the presence of the child, a warrant may issue on the order of the court 
either against the parents, or either of them, or guardian, or the person 
having the custody or control of the child, or with whom the child 
may be or against the child itself to bring such person into court. On 
default of the custodian of the child or ■ on his appearance or answer, 
or on the appearance in person of the child in court with or without the 
summons or other process and on the answer, default or appearance or 
written consent to the proceedings of the other defendants thereto or as 
soon thereafter as may be, the court shall proceed to hear evidence. The 
court may, in any case when the child is not represented by any person, 
appoint some suitable person to act on behalf of the child. At any time 
after the filing of the petition, and pending the final disposition of the 
case, the court may continue the hearing from time to time and may 
allow such child to remain in the possession of its custodian, or in its 
own home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation officer or 
it may order such child to be placed in the custody of a probation officer 
of the court, or of any other suitable person appointed by the court, 
or to be kept in some suitable place provided by the city or county 
authorities. (As amended by an Act approved June 4, 1907.) 

§ 6. The court shall have authority to appoint or designate one or 
more discreet persons of good character to serve as probation officers 
during the pleasure of the court; said probation officers to receive no 
compensation from the public treasury. In case a probation officer shall 
be appointed by any court, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, 
if practicable, to notify the said probation officer in advance when any 
child is to be brought before the court; it shall be the duty of the said 
probation officer to make such investigation as may be required by the 
court; to be present in court in order to represent the interests of the 
child when the case is heard; to furnish to the court such information 
and assistance as the judge may require; and to take such charge of 
any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court : Pro- 
vided, however, that in counties having over five hundred thousand 
population, the judges of the circuit court, by rule to be entered of 
record, shall determine a number of probation officers, including one 
head probation officer, to be employed during each year, who shall be 
paid a suitable compensation for their services. The head probation 
officer shall have charge and control of all other probation officers, subject 
to the direction of the court. The judges of said court shall notify the 
president of the board of county commissioners or supervisors of said 
county, as the case may be, of the number of said probation officers so 
determined, who are to be paid as herein provided; and said probation 
officers, including the head probation officer, as aforesaid, shall be 
appointed in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations 

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as other officers or employes in the said county under the board of 
commissioners or supervisors of the county, as the case may be, and 
shall be paid a suitable compensation by the county for their services, 
the amount thereof to be determined by such board of commissioners 
or supervisors, as the case may be: Provided, further, that in counties 
having a population of less than five hundred thousand (500,000), the 
county judge of any such county shall have the authority to designate 
some suitable person to act as probation officer, during the pleasure of 
the court; and such probation officer shall be paid a suitable compensa- 
tion for his services, such compensation to be fixed by the board of county 
commissioners, or board of supervisors of such county, as the case may 
be, such compensation to be paid out of the county treasury by such 
county, monthly, upon certification by the county judge of such county. 
Such board of county commissioners or board of supervisors of any such 
counties may, if they deem it necessary or advisable, upon recommenda- 
tion of the county judge, provide for the employment of additional 
probation officers, and shall have like authority to fix their compensation; 
and if such additional probation officers are authorized, as aforesaid, the 
same shall be appointed by the county judge of such county, and be paid 
out of the county treasury, monthly, upon proper certification of such 
county judge. Such probation officers shall have the same powers and 
perform the same duties as other probation officers under the provisions 
of this Act. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to limit 
or abridge the power of the judge or judges so designated under section 
3 of this Act to hear cases coming under this Act, to appoint persons 
or probation officers whom said judge or judges may see fit, and who 
shall serve without pay'for such services as probation officers. (As 
amended by an Act approved April L9, 1907.) 

§ 7. If the court shall find any male chjld under the age of 17 
years or any female child under the age of 18 years to be dependent 
or neglected within the meaning of this Act, the court may allow such 
child to remain at it.- own home subject to the friendly visitation of a 
probation officer. And if the parent, parents, guardian or custodian 
consent thereto, or if the court shall further find that the parent, par- 
ents, guardian or custodian of such child are unfit or improper guardians 
or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train, educate or discipline 
such child and that it is lor the interest of such child and of the People 
of this State and that such child he taken from the custody of its par- 
ents, custodian or guardian, the court may make an order appointing 
as guardian of the person of such child, some reputable citizen of good 
moral character and order such guardian to place such child in some 
suitable family home or other suitable place, which such guardian may 
provide for such child, or the court may enter an order committing such 
child to some suitable State institution organized for the care of depend- 
ent or neglected children, or to some training school or industrial school 
or to some association embracing in its objects the purpose of caring 
for or obtaining homes for neglected or dependent children, which asso- 
ciation shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided. If the parent 
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properly care for the said child, but are otherwise proper guardians and 
it is for the welfare of such child to remain at home, the court may 
enter an order finding such facts and fixing the amount of money neces- 
sary to enable the parent or parents to properly care for such child, and 
thereupon it shall be the duty of the county board, through its county 
agent or otherwise, to pay to such parent or parents or to such other 
person for them as the court may direct at such times as said order may 
designate the amount so specified for the care of such dependent or neg- 
lected child until the further order of the court. (As amended by an 
Act approved June 5, 1911.) 

§ 8. In every case where such child is committed to an institution 
or association, the court shall appoint the president, secretary or super- 
intendent of such institution or association, guardian over the person of 
such child, and shall order such guardian to place such child in such 
institution or with such association, whereof he is such officer and to 
hold such child, care for, train and educate it subject to the rules and 
laws that may be in force from time to time governing such institution 
or association. (As amended by an Act approved June 4, 1907.) 

§ 9. If the court shall find any male child under the age of 17 
years or any female child under the age of 18 years to be delinquent 
within the meaning of this Act, the court may allow such child to 
remain at its own home subject to the friendly visitation of a proba- 
tion officer, such child to report to the probation officer as often as may 
be required, and if the parents, parent, guardian or custodian consent 
thereto, or if the court shall further find either that the parent, parents, 
guardian or custodian are unfit or improper guardians, or are unable 
or unwilling to care for, protect, train, educate or discipline such child 
and shall further find that if is for the interest of such child and of 
the People of this State that such child be taken from the custody of its 
parents, parent, custodian or guardian, the court may appoint some 
proper person or probation officer, guardian over the person of such 
child and permit it to remain at its home, or order such guardian to 
cause such child to be placed in a suitable family home, or cause it to be 
boarded out in some suitable family home, in case provision is made 
by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board ; or 
the court may commit such child to some training school for boys if a 
male child or to an industrial school for girls if a female child, or to any 
institution incorporated under the laws of this State to care for delin- 
quent children, or to any institution chat has been or may be provided by 
the State, county, city, town or village suitable for the care of delinquent 
children, including St. Charles School for Boys and State Training 
School for Girls, or to some association that will receive it, embracing 
in its objects the care of neglected, dependent or delinquent children 
and which has been duly accredited as hereinafter provided. In every 
case where such child is committed to an institution or association, the 
court shall appoint 'the president, secretary or superintendent of such 
institution or association, guardian over the person of such child and 



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shall order such guardian to place such child in such institution or with 
such association, whereof he is such officer and to hold such child, care 
for, train and educate it subject to the rules and laws that may be in 
force, from time to time, governing such institution or association. 

§ 9a. The court may, in its discretion, in any case of a delinquent 
child, permit such child to be proceeded against in accordance with the 
laws that may be in force in this State governing the commission of 
crimes or violations of city, village, or town ordinance. In such case 
the petition filed under this Act shall be dismissed. 

§ 9b. The court may, when the health or condition of any child 
found to be dependent, neglected or delinquent requires it, order the 
guardian to cause such child to be placed in a public hospital or institu- 
tion for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institution 
which will receive it for like purposes, without charge to the public 
authorities. 

§ 9c. Any child found to be dependent, neglected or delinquent as 
defined in this Act, and awarded by tin 1 court to ;i guardian, institution 
or association, shall be held by such guardian, institution or association, 
as the case may be, by virtue of the order entered of record in such case, 
;iii(l the clerk of the court shall issue and cause to be delivered to such 
guardian, institution or association a certified copy of such order of the 
court, which certified copy of such order shall be proof of the authority 
of such guardian, institution or association in behalf of such child, and 
no other process need issue to warrant the keeping of such child. The 
guardianship under this Aci shall continue until the court shall by 
further order otherwise direct bul not after such child shall have reached 
the age of 21 years. Such child or any person interested in such child 
ni.iv, from time to time, upon a proper showing, apply to the court 
for the appointment of a new guardian or the restoration of such child 
to the custody of its parents or for the discharge of the guardian so 
appointed. 

§ 9d. Whenever it shall appear to the court before or after the 
appointment of a guardian under this Act that the home of the child or 
of his parents, former guardian or custodian is a suitable place for such 
child and that such child could be permitted to remain or ordered to be 
returned to said home consistent with the public good and the good of 
such child, the court may enter an order to that effect returning such 
child to his home under probation, parole or otherwise; it being the 
intention of this Act that no child shall be taken away or kept out of his 
home or away from his parents and guardian any Longer than is reason- 
ably necessary to preserve the welfare of such child and the interest of 
this State: Provide!, however, that no such order shall be entered 
without first giving ten days' notice to the guardian, institution or 
association to whose care such child has been committed, unless such 
guardian, institution or association consents to such order. 

§ 9e. The court may, from time to time, cite into court the guardian, 
institution or association to whose care any dependent, neglected or 
delinquent child has been awarded, and to require him or it to make a 



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full, true and perfect report as to his or its doings in behalf of such 
child; and it shall be the duty of such guardian, institution or associa- 
tion, within ten days after such citation, to make such report either in 
writing verified by affidavit, or verbally under oath in open court, or 
otherwise as the court shall direct ; and upon the hearing of such report, 
with or without further evidence, the court may, if it sees fit, remote 
such guardian and appoint another in his stead, or take such child 
away from such institution or association and place it in another, or 
restore such child to the custody of its parents or former guardian or 
custodian. 

§ 10. When in any county where a court is held as provided in 
section 3 of this Act, a male child under the age of 17 years or a female 
child under the age of 18 years is arrested with or without warrant 
such child may, instead of being taken before a justice of the peace or 
police magistrate, be taken directly before such court; or if the child 
is taken before a justice of the peace or police magistrate, it shall be 
the duty of such justice of the peace or police magistrate to transfer 
the case to such court, and the officer having the child in charge to 
take the child before such court, and, in any case, the court may pro- 
ceed to hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if the 
child had been brought before the court upon petition as herein pro- 
vided. In any case, the court shall require notice to be given and 
investigation to be made as in other cases under this Act, and may 
adjourn the hearing from time to time for that purpose. (As amended 
by an Act approved May 16, 1905.) 

§ 11. No court or magistrate shall commit a child under 12 years 
of age to a jail or police station, but if such child is unable to give bail 
it may be committed to the care of the sheriff, police officer or probation 
officer, who shall keep such child in some suitable place provided by the 
city or county outside of the inclosure of any jail or police station. When 
any child shall be sentenced to confinement in any institution to which 
adult convicts are sentenced it shall be unlawful to confine such child 
in the same building with such adult convicts, or to confine such child 
in the same yard or inclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring such 
child into any yard or building in which such adult convicts may be 
present, 

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the State Keforma- 
tory at Pontiac and the board of managers of the State Home for 
Juvenile Female Offenders at Geneva, and the board of managers of 
any other institution to which juvenile delinquents may be committed 
by the courts, to maintain an agent of such institution, whose duty it 
shall be to examine the homes of children paroled from such institution 
for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to said court whether they 
are suitable homes ; to assist children paroled or discharged from such 
institution in finding suitable employment, and to maintain a friendly 
supervision over paroled inmates during the continuance of their parole; 
such agents shall hold office subject to the pleasure of the board making 
the appointment, and shall receive such compensation as such board may 
determine out of any funds appropriated for such institution applicable 
thereto. 



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§ 13. All associations receiving children under this Act shall be 
subject to the same visitation, inspection and supervision by the Board 
of State Commissioners of Public Charities as are the public charitable 
institutions of this State, and it shall be the duty of the said board of 
commissioners to pass annually upon the fitness of every such association 
as may receive, or desire to receive, children under the supervision of 
this Act, and every such association shall annually, at such time as 
said board shall direct, make report thereto, showing its condition, man- 
agement and competency to adequately care for such children as are, or 
may be, committed to it, and such other facts as said board may require, 
and upon said board being satisfied that such association is competent 
and has adequate facilities to care for such children, it shall issue to 
the same a certificate to that effect, which certificate shall continue in 
force for one year, unless sooner revoked by said board, and no child 
shall be committed to any such association which shall not have received 
such a certificate within fifteen months next preceding the commitment. 
The court may, at any time, require from any association receiving, or 
desiring to receive, children under the provisions of this Act, such reports, 
information and statements as the judge shall deem proper or necessary 
for .his action, and the court shall in no case be required to commit a 
child to any association whose standing, conduct or care of children, or 
ability to care for the same, is not satisfactory to the court. (As amended 
by an Act approved May 11, 1901.) 

§ 14. No association whose objects may embrace the caring for 
dependent, neglected or delinquent children -hall hereafter be incorpo- 
rated unless the proposed articles of incorporation shall first have been 
submitted to the examination of the Board of State Commissioners )f 
Public Charities, and the Secretary of State shall not issue a certificate 
of incorporation unless there shall first be filed in his office the certificate 
of said Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities that said 
board has examined the said articles of incorporation and that, in its 
judgment, the incorporators are reputable and responsible persons, the 
proposed work is needed, and the incorporation of such association is 
desirable and for the public good; amendments proposed to the articles 
of incorporation or association having as an object the care and disposal 
of dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall be submitted in 
like manner to the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities, 
and the Secretary of State shall not record such amendment or issue 
his certificate therefor unless there shall first be filed in his office the 
certificate of said Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities 
that they have examined the said amendment, that the association 
in question is, in their judgment, performing in good faith the work 
undertaken by it, and that the said amendment is, in their judgment, a 
proper one and for the public good. 

§ 15. Whenever the petition filed, as is provided in section 3 hereof, 
or a supplemental petition filed at any time after the appointment of the 
guardian shall pray that the guardian to be appointed shall be author- 
ized to consent to the legal adoption of the child, and the court upon the 



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hearing shall find that it is to the best interest of such child that the 
guardian be given such authority, the court may, in its order appointing 
such guardian, empower him to appear in court where any proceedings 
for the adoption of such child may be pending, and to consent to such 
adoption; and such consent shall be sufficient to authorize the court 
where the adoption proceedings are pending to enter a proper order or 
decree of adoption without further notice to, or consent by the parents 
or relatives of such child : Provided, however, that before entering 
such order the court shall find from the evidence that the parents or 
surviving parent of a legitimate child or the mother of an illegitimate 
child, or if the child has no parents living the guardian of the child, if 
any, or if there is no parent living and the child has no guardian or the 
guardian is not known to petitioner, then a near relative of the child, if 
any there be, consents to such order; or that one parent consents and 
the other is unfit for any of the reasons hereinafter specified to have 
the child or that both parents are or that the surviving parent or the 
mother of an illegitimate child is so unfit for any of such reasons — 
the grounds of unfitness being (a) depravity, (b) open and notorious 
adultery or fornication, (c) habitual drunkenness for the space of one 
year prior to the filing of the petition, (d) extreme and repeated cruelty 
to the child, (e) abandonment of the child, or (f) desertion of the 
child for more than six months next preceding the filing of the petition. 
(As amended by an Act approved June 4, 1907.) 

§ 16. No association which is incorporated under the laws of any 
other state than the State of Illinois shall place any child in any family 
home within the boundaries of the State of Illinois, either with or 
without indenture, or for adoption, unless the said association shall 
have furnished the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities 
with such guarantee as they may require that no child shall be brought 
into the State of Illinois by such society or its agents having any con- 
tagious or incurable disease, or having any deformity, or being of feeble 
mind, or of vicious character, and that said association will promptly 
receive and remove from the State any child brought into the State of 
Illinois by its agent which shall become a public charge within the period 
of five years after being brought into this State. Any person who shall 
receive, to be placed in a home, or shall place in a home, any child in 
behalf of any association incorporated in any other state than the State 
of Illinois which shall not have complied with the requirements of this 
Act, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days, or 
fined not less than $5.00 or more than $100.00, or both, in the discretion 
of the court. 

§ 17. The court in committing children shall place them as far as 
practicable in the care and custody of some individual holding the same 
religious belief as the parents of said child, or with some association 
which is controlled by persons of like religious faith of the parents of 
the said child. 

§ 18. The county judge of each county may appoint a board of six 
reputable inhabitants, who will serve without compensation, to constitute 
a board of visitation, whose duty it shall be to visit as often as once a 



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year all institutions, societies and associations receiving children under 
this Act. Said visits shall be made by not less than two of the members 
of the board, who shall go together or make a joint report; the said 
board of visitors shall report to the court from time to time the condition 
of children received by or in the charge of such associations and institu- 
tions, and shall make an annual report to the Board of State Commis- 
sioners of Public Charities in such form as the board may prescribe. 
The county board may, at their discretion, make appropriations for the 
payment of the actual and necessary expenses incurred by the visitors 
in the discharge of their official duties. 

§ 19. The powers and duties herein provided to be exercised by the 
county court or the judges thereof may, in counties having over 500,000 
population, be exercised by the circuit courts and their judges as herein- 
before provided for. 

§ 20. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal any portion 
of the Act to aid industrial schools for girls, the Act to provide for and 
aid training schools for boys, the Act to establish the Illinois State 
Eeformatory or the Act to provide for a State Home for Juvenile Female 
Offenders. And in all commitments to said institutions the Acts in 
reference to said institutions shall govern the same. 

§ 21. This Act shall be liberally construed, to the end that its pur- 
pose may be carried out, to-wit : That the care, custody and discipline 
of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be that which should be 
given by its parents, and in all cases where it can properly be done the 
child be placed in an improved family home and become a member of 
the family by legal adoption or otherwise. 

§ 22. If it shall appear, upon the hearing of the cause that the 
parent, parents, or any person or persons named in such petition who 
are in law liable for the support of such child, are able to contribute to 
the support of such child, the court shall enter an order requiring such 
parent, parents or other persons to pay to the guardian so appointed or 
to the institution to which such child may bo committed, a reasonable 
sum from time to time for the support, maintenance or education of 
such child and the court may order such parent, parents or other per- 
sons to give reasonable security for the payment of such sum or sums, 
and upon failure to pa}', the court may enforce obedience to such order 
by a proceeding as for contempt of court. The court may, on applica- 
tion and on such notice as the court may direct from time to time, make 
such alterations in the allowance as shall appear reasonable and proper. 

§ 23. If the person so ordered to pay for the support, maintenance 
or education of a dependent, neglected or delinquent child shall be 
employed for wages, salary or commission, the court may also order that 
the sum to be paid by him shall he paid to the guardian or institution out 
of his wages, salary or commission and that he shall execute an assign- 
ment thereof pro tanto. The court may also order the parent or the 
person so ordered to pay the sum of money for the support, main- 



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tenance or education of a child, from time to time make discovery to the 
court as to his place of employment and amount earned by him. Upon 
his failure to obey the orders of court he may be punished as for contempt 
of court. 

§ 24. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give the guardian 
appointed under this Act the guardianship of the estate of the child or 
to change the age of minority for any other purpose except the custody 
of the child. 

Approved April 21, 1899. 



PENSION FUND. 



An Act to provide for the contribution from public moneys to the public 
school teachers' pension and retirement fund in cities having a popu- 
lation exceeding 100,000 inhabitants. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That the board of education of any 
city having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants shall annually 
set aside and contribute to the public school teachers' pension and retire- 
ment fund in such city now created or existing, or such as may be here- 
after created, pursuant to any law, in addition to any other moneys now 
provided by law to be set aside and contributed in whole or in part to 
such pension fund, all moneys retained or deducted from the salary or 
compensation of any teacher in the employ of such board of education, 
as a forfeiture or otherwise, on account of absence from duty of such 
teacher less whatever may have been paid for substitute service on account 
of such absence; and also a further sufficient sum of public money so 
that the same when taken together with the moneys added to such 
pension fund for that year from interest on school funds raised by taxa- 
tion shall equal in amount the aggregate of the sums set apart for that 
year and contributed to such pension fund from the salaries of the 
teachers in the employ of such board of education; and also such other 
and further moneys derived from miscellaneous sources as such board 
of education shall determine. 

Approved June 6, 1911. 



PUBLIC DRINKING CUP. 

An Act to prohibit the use of a common drinking cup, glass or other 
utensil used for public drinking purposes in public and private schools, 
State educational institutions, halls used for public meetings or enter- 
tainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories or public or 
municipal buildings, on railroad trains and stations and in other public 
places in the State of Illinois. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any 



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person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly, connected in any 
public or private school or in any State institution, halls used for public 
meetings or entertainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories 
or public or municipal buildings in the State of Illinois to use or permit 
for use a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public 
drinking purposes. 

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation in charge 
of or in control of any railroad trains or any station to permit the use 
of a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drink- 
ing purposes in or about any trains operated by it or in any building 
or premises used by it whatever. 

§ 3. No person, firm or corporation in charge of or in control of 
any railroad train or railroad station, or any public or private school, 
or any State educational institution, or of any hall used for public 
meetings or entertainments, or hotel, lodging house, theatre, or factory, 
or of any public or municipal- building in the State of Illinois shall 
furnish any drinking cup, glass. or other utensil used for public drinking 
purposes for public use, nor shall such person or corporation or institu- 
tion use or have for use in or upon its premises any such common 
drinking cup. 

§ 4. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined for each offense 
the sum of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 

Approved June 5, 1911. 



REVENUE. 

An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
sented in the General Assembly: That in determining the amount of 
the maximum tax authorized to be levied by any statute of this State 
the assessed valuation of the current year of the property in each taxing 
district, as equalized by the State Board of Equalization, shall be used. 
And if the amount of any tax certified to the county clerk for extension 
shall exceed the maximum allowed by law. determined as above provided, 
such excess shall be disregarded, and the residue only treated as the 
amount certified for extension. 

§ 2. The county clerk in each county shall ascertain the rates per 
cent required to be extended upon the assessed valuation of the taxable 
property in the respective towns, townships, districts, incorporated cities 
and villages in his county, as equalized by the State Board of Equaliza- 
tion for the current year, to produce the several amounts certified for 
extension by the taxing authorities in said county (as the same shall 
have been reduced as hereinbefore provided in all cases where the orig- 
inal amounts exceed the amount authorized by law) : Provided, how- 
ever, that if the aggregate of all the taxes (exclusive of State taxes, 



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village taxes, levee taxes, school building taxes, high school taxes, road, 
and bridge taxes, and also bonded indebtedness taxes in cities whose 
bonded indebtedness exceeds 6 per cent of the assessed valuation of 
the property therein upon which under existing laws, taxes are required 
to be extended, and taxes levied pursuant to the mandate or judgment 
of any court of record on any bonded indebtedness), certified to be 
extended against any property in any part of any taxing district or 
municipality, shall exceed 3 per cent of the assessed valuation thereof 
upon which the taxes are required to be extended, the rate per cent 
of the tax levy of such taxing district or municipality shall be reduced 
as follows: The county clerk shall reduce the rate per cent of the tax 
levy of such taxing district or municipality in the same proportion in 
which it would be necessary to reduce the highest aggregate per cent if 
all the tax levies (exclusive of State taxes, village taxes, levee taxes, 
school building taxes, high school taxes, road and bridge taxes, and also 
bonded indebtedness taxes in cities whose bonded indebtedness exceeds 
6 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property therein upon which, 
under existing laws, taxes are required to be extended, and taxes levied 
pursuant to the mandate or judgment of any court of record on any 
bonded indebtedness), certified for extension upon any of the taxable 
property in said taxing district or municipality, to bring the same down 
to 3 per cent of the assessed value of said taxable property upon 
which said taxes are required by law to be extended : Provided, further, 
that in reducing tax levies hereunder the rate per cent of the tax levy 
for county purposes in counties having a population of over 300,000 
shall not be reduced below a rate of forty cents on each one hundred 
dollars assessed value, and in counties having a population of less than 
300,000 the rate of the tax levy for -county purposes shall not be reduced 
below a rate of forty-five cents on each one hundred dollars assessed 
value, and the rate per cent of the tax levy for city or village purposes 
(exclusive of library, school and park purposes) in cities and villages 
having a population of over 150,000 shall not be reduced below a rate 
of one dollar and ten cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, 
and the rate per cent of the school tax for educational purposes shall 
not be reduced below a rate of one dollar and five cents on each one 
hundred dollars assessed value, and in cities and villages having a 
population of less than 150,000 shall not be reduced below a rate of one 
dollar and twenty cents, exclusive of the taxes levied in such cities or 
villages having a population of less than 150,000 for the payment of the 
principal of and the interest on bonded indebtedness, on each one hun- 
dred dollars assessed value, and the rate per cent of the school tax levy 
for educational purposes shall not be reduced below a rate of one dollar 
and fifty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, but the other 
taxes which are subject to reduction under this section shall be subject 
only to such reduction, respectively, as would be made therein under 
this section if this proviso were not inserted herein: And, provided, 
further, in reducing tax levies hereunder all school taxes levied in cities 
exceeding 150,000 inhabitants, with the exception of the levy for school 
building purposes, shall be included in the taxes to be reduced. 



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The rate per cent of the tax levy of every county, city, village, town, 
township, school district, park district, sanitary district, road district, 
and other public authorities (except the State), shall be ascertained and 
determined (and reduced, when necessary, as above provided) in the 
manner hereinbefore specified, and shall then, commencing with the 
year 1909 be extended by the county clerk upon the assessed value of the 
property subject thereto (being one-third of the full value thereof) as 
equalized according to law. In reducing the rate per cent of any tax 
levy, as hereinbefore provided, the rates per cent of all tax levies certi- 
fied to the county clerk for extension as originally ascertained and 
determined under section 1 of this Act shall be used in ascertaining the 
aggregate of all taxes certified to be extended, without regard to any 
reductions made therein under this section: Provided, that no reduc- 
tion of any tax levy made hereunder shall diminish any amount appro- 
priated by corporate or taxing authorities for the payment of the prin- 
cipal or interest on bonded debt, or levied pursuant to the mandate or 
judgment of any court of record. And to that end every such taxing 
body shall certify to the county clerk with its tax levy, the amount 
thereof required for any such purposes. 

In case of a reduction hereunder any taxing body whose levy is affected 
thereby and whose appropriations are required by law to be itemized, 
may, after the same have been ascertained, distribute the amount of 
such reduction among the item? of its appropriations, with the excep- 
tions aforesaid, as it may elect. If no such election be made within 
three months after the extension of such tax. all such items, except as 
above specified, shall be deemed to be reduced pro rata. (As amended 
by an Act approved June 11. 1909.) 

Approved May 9, 1901. 



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INDEX. 



ACCOUNTS— 

Of county superintendents 

Of township treasurers 

Examined by county superintendents 

Statement of 

Subject to inspection 

With school districts 

ACTIONS, CIVIL— 

Against collectors of taxes 

County board 

Purchaser of school lands 

Township treasurer 

Township trustees 

To recover interest 

ACTIONS, CRIMINAL— 

Against school officers 

ADVERTISEMENTS— 

Sale of school houses 

Lands 

Sites 

AGE— 

Compulsory school 

Kindergarten school 

School 

ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY— 

In certain cases 

APPARATUS— 

May be purchased, when 

APPEALS— 

From county superintendent 

From trustees of schools 

APPORTIONMENT— 

By auditor 

By county superintendent 

By trustees of schools 

APPRAISERS— 

Appointed, when 

ARBOR AND BIRD DAY— 

Designated, how 



re. 


Sec. 


8 


10 


23 


70 


10 


15 


27 


82 


23 


70 


26 


79 


60 


194 


63 


207 


68 


231 


73 


250 


8 


12 


25 


74 



74 257 



15 


40 


68 


229 


15 


40 


77 


274 


36 


115 


35 


114 



36 115 



12 


17 


19 


55 


64 


211 


9 


14 


14 


35 



22 



65 



76 271 



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ASSESSOR— Page. Sec. 

To designate number of districts 60 192 

ASSISTANT— 

Appointment of 11 16 

Compensation of 63 207 

ASSOCIATION, STATE TEACHERS— 

Proceedings of 76 272 

AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS— 

To apportion funds 64 211 

To issue patent 69 235 

To issue warrants 64 212 

To withhold funds, when 7 4 

BOARD OF EDUCATION— 

Conveyances made on written request 40 127 

Duties of 39 127 

Election of 38 123 

How conducted 38 126 

When held 33 106 

Notice of election 33 107 

Failure to give 33 107 

Powers of 39 127 

When exercised : 34 111 

Yeas and nays, when necessary 34 112 

BOARD OF EDUCATION, CHICAGO— 

Appointment of 43 128 

Duties of 44 134 

Eligibility 43 129 

Powers of 44 133 

Powers of, the council concurring 43 132 

President of, appointed 43 130 

Secretary of, appointed 43 130 

BOARD OF EDUCATION. SPECIAL— 

Appointment of 80 1 

In certain cases 84 1 

In certain districts 85 1 

BOARD OF EDUCATION, TOWNSHIP— 

Election of 28 86 

Organization of 28 86 

Powers of 29 91 

Vacancy in 28 86 

BONDS, DISTRICT— 

In certain districts 83 1 

Indebtedness, existing 82 1 

BONDS, OFFICIAL— 

Superintendent's, county 7 6 

Approval of 7 6 

Custodian of 8 6 

Form of 7 6 

Superintendent's, State , 5 2 

Approval of 5 2 

Custodian of 5 2 

Treasurer's, township 22 68 

Approval of 22 68 

Custodian of 22 68 

Form of 23 68 



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BONDS, SCHOOL— Page. Sec. 

Election for . . . . # 61 198 

How conducted •• . 61 199 

Notice of election 61 198 

Form of 61 198 

Poll-book 61 200 

Return of 61 200 

Refunding 61 201 

Registration 60 196 

BOUNDARIES, DISTRICT— 

How changed ■ 17 46 

In certain districts 17 48 

BRANCHES OF STUDY— 

Prescribed by directors 35 114 

Required by statute ■ 55 179 

CENSUS, SCHOOL— 

By directors 15 36 

By county superintendent 8 12 

By trustees of schools 15 36 

CERTIFICATES, COUNTY— 

Age of applicant 54 176 

Essential, when 54 176 

Examination for, when held ' 55 180 

Fee for examination 55 180 

Transmitted to county treasurer 56 182 

Form of 55 178 

Record of 11 15 

Renewal of 55 178 

Revocation of 55 178 

CERTIFICATE, STATE— 

Examination for 54 177 

Registration fee 54 177 

Suspension of 6 3 

Valid when and where 54 177 

CERTIFICATE OF LEVY— 

Form of 59 190 

Return of 59 190 

CHARTER DISTRICTS, SPECIAL— 

Annual reports of - 78 276 

Boundaries changed, how 17 48 

Discontinued, how 18 51 

Elections in, when held 38 126 

Funds of, how invested. 24 72 

Referred to 33 103 

Referred to 38 124 

Reports of 78 276 

Revenues of 78 276 

CHILD LABOR— 

Age 90 1 

Children— 

Crippled, classes for 36 115 

Deaf, classes for 36 115 



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CLERK, DISTRICT— Page. Sec. 

Appointed 34 110 

Compensation 35 115 

Duties 34 112 

Report of 34 113 

COLLECTOR, COUNTY— 

Duty to notify directors 65 214 

To pay Auditor's order 64 211 

COLLECTOR. TOWN— 

Duty to pay taxes, when 60 193 

Liability 60 194 

COLLEGES— 

Duty to make report 7 4 

COLORED CHILDREN— 

Exclusion of, penalty for .75 261 

Intimidation of, penalty for : 75 262 

COMPENSATION— 

Assistant superintendent 63 207 

County superintendent 106 27 

District clerk 35 115 

Other officers 76 266 

Township treasurer 23 69 

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW— 

Age of child subject to 77 

Exemptions 77 

Truant officer appointed 77 

Duties of 77 

Penalty for violation of 77 

CONDEMNATION— 

Lands for sites 37 

By board of directors 37 

By board of education 39 

CONTRACTS— 

Penalty for interest in 74 

COSTS— 

Generally 76 

COUNTY BOARD— 

Duties of 63 

Liability of 63 

Powers of 63 

Vacancy filled by 64 

COUNTY CLERK— 

Duties of 62 

First election of trustees, notice of 13 

COUNTY FUND— 

Final distribution of 65 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT— 

Appeals from decisions of trustees 19 

Apportionment of funds 9 

Approval of treasurer's bond 9 

Bond of 7 

Compensation of 106 



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COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT— Concluded. Page. Sec. 

Correction in defects in boundaries by 11 16 

Duties of 9 15 

Election of 7 5 

Liability of 74 257 

Opinions in controversies 12 17 

Powers of 11 16 

Removal of 64 208 

Report, annual 8 7 

"Vacancy in office of 64 209 

CRIPPLED CHILDREN— 

Classes for 36 115 

DEAF CHILDREN— 

Classes for 36 115 

DEBT, BONDED— 

Apportioned, how 20 59 

DIRECTORS, SCHOOL— 

A body corporate 33 104 

• Annual report 34 113 

Apparatus, may purchase, when 36 115 

Donations for sectarian purposes 75 263 

Duties of 34 114 

Election of 33 106 

Eligibility 33 105 

Meetings, regular and special 34 m 

Liability of 74 255 

Official business transacted, when 34 m 

Orders 36 116 

For wages of teacher 37 ng 

Not paid for want of funds 26 81 

Organization of 34 no 

Powers of 35 115 

Quorum of 34 m 

Rules and regulations of 35 114 

Vacancy 33 106 

Teas and nays necessary, when 34 112 

DISTRICT, SCHOOL— 

Boundaries, how changed 17 46 

Corrected, by county superintendent 11 16 

In certain cases 17 43 

Dissolved, how and when 17 49 

Funds of 16 41 

List of taxpayers of 20 58 

Map of 20 58 

Numbered by county superintendent 11 15 

By county clerk 62 205 

DISTRICTS, SPECIAL CHARTER— 

Annual reports of 78 276 

Boundaries changed, bow 17 4s 

Discontinued, how 18 51 

Elections in, when held 38 126 

Funds of, how invested 24 72 

Referred to 33 103 

Referred to 38 124 

Reports of 78 276 

Revenue of 78 276 

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DONATIONS— 

For school purposes 

For sectarian purposes 

ELECTION COMMISSION— 

In certain districts 99 

Judges and clerks . .• 100 

EMINENT DOMAIN— 

By school directors 37 

By board of education 39 

In certain cases ' 101 

EXCESS CHARGES— 

For deaf and dumb and blind children 96 

For delinquent children 98 

EXECUTIONS— 

Generally 73 

EXPULSION OF PUPILS— 

By board of directors 36 

FINES AND FORFEITURES— 

Collection of 70 

Distributed annually 9 

Paid to county superintendent 70 

Penalty for failure to pay ' 71 

Report of 70 

Penalty for failure to report 71 

FLAGS, UNITED STATES— 

Furnished by school directors 36 

FORMS— 

Of bond of county superintendent 7 

Of bond of township treasurer 23 

Of mortgage 24 

Of register '. 57 

Of schedule 57 

Of school orders 37 

Of tax levy certificate 59 

Of teacher's certificate 55 

FUNDS, SCHOOL— 

Apportionment of by Auditor 64 

By county superintendent 9 

By trustees of schools 14 

Common, consists of what 64 

District, custodian of 24 

Permanent, consists of what 65 

FURNITURE— 

May purchase 39 

Revenue for 59 

GRADUATES— 

Of county normal schools 54 

Of the eighth grade 52 

HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS— 

Established, how 106 



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HIGH SCHOOL, TOWNSHIP- Page. Sec. 

Board of education of 2S 86 

Discontinued, how 29 92 

Established, how • . . . 28 86 

Petition for 27 85 

HOLIDAYS, SCHOOL— 

Legal school 58 188 

Special, may be granted 36 115 

HUMANE INSTRUCTION— 

In public schools 108 1 

INSTITUTE— 

Annual 56 181 

Free, to whom 56 181 

Funds transmitted to county treasurer 56 is2 

Registration fee 56 181 

Teachers entitled to attend 56 183 

INSURANCE— 

In making loans 24 72 

INTEREST— 

Order draws, when 26 81 

Rate of loans 24 72 

JUDGES OF ELECTION— 

Of school directors 33 ios 

Of trustees of schools 13 27 

JUDC J.ENTS— 

Against school officers 73 251 

JUVENILE: COURTS— 

For defective children 109 1 

KINDERGARTENS— 

Established, how 36 115 

LANDS, SCHOOL— 

Common, what are 65 217 

Leased, how 66 219 

Sale of 66 224 

Sale of other lands 16 44 

LIABILITY OF SCHOOL OFFICERS— 

For conversion of funds 74 257 

For interest in contracts 74 255 

For interest in sales 75 26O 

For loss of funds 75 264 

LIBRARIES— 

May be purchased, when 36 115 

LOANS— 

Of township fund 24 72 

MANUAL TRAINING— 

May be established 31 97 

MEETINGS— 

In school houses og j^g 

Regular and special 34 m 

Semi-annual 14 34 



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MONTH, SCHOOL— Page. Sec. 

Same as calendar 58 188 

MORTGAGE— . 

Form of 24 73 

NORMAL SCHOOLS, COUNTY— 

Established, how 32 OS 

Graduate of 54 176 

NOTICE OF ELECTION— 

In districts 33 107 

In townships 13 23 

ORDERS, SCHOOL— 

Draw interest, when 26 81 

Form of 37 116 

Teachers' 37 118 

ORGANIZATION— 

Of high school board of education 2S 86 

Of school directors 34 110 

Of trustees of schools 14 33 

PARENTAL SCHOOLS— 

In certain cities 46 140 

PENSION FUND— 

Employes 101 1 

Teachers 40 127a 

Teachers in certain districts 48 152 

Additions to 121 1 

PETITION— 

For change of boundaries 17 46 

For dissolution of district 17 49 

For organization under general law 18 51 

For sale of school house 15 40 

For sale of school lands 66 224 

For township high school 27 85 

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE— 

Instruction in 76 273 

PUBLIC DRINKING CUP— 

In public . schools 1:1 1 

PUPILS— 

Age of 35 114 

Expulsion of 36 115 

Suspension of 36 115 

Transfer permit 38 121 

QUALIFICATION S— 

Of assistant superintendent 11 16 

Of school director 33 105 

Of teachers 54 176 

Of township treasurer 22 67 

Of trustee of schools 12 21 

Of voters 76 268 

QUORUM— 

Of school directors 34 111 

Of trustees of schools 14 34 



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REGISTER— Page. Sec. 

Form of 56 185 

Return of 56 185 

REMOVAL FROM OFFICE— 

Of county superintendent 64 208 

Of president of board of trustees 14 33 

Of school director 11 16 

Of teacher 35 115 

By board of education 39 127 

Of township treasurer 22 67 

REPORT— 

Of county superintendent, annual 8 7 

Of directors to treasurer 34 113 

Of fines and forfeitures 70 241 

Of institutions of learning 7 4 

Of Superintendent of Public Instruction 6 3 

Of township treasurer 15 36 

REVENUE— 

Assessment not vitiated, when 59 190 

Certificate of levy : 59 190 

Form of : 59 190 

Return of 59 190 

Collector of 60 193 

Penalty for refusal to pay over 60 194 

Computation of 62 205 

Juul law 122 1 

Rates . 59 189 

SCHOLARSHIPS— 

Normal school 52 166 

University 53 170 

SECTARIAN PURPOSE^ 

Appropriations for, prohibited 75 263 

SITE, SCHOOL HOUSE— 

School directors may select, when •. 37 119 

Sold, when 15 40 

Unsuitable, when 36 115 

Vote of people necessary to select 37 119 

When selected by board of education 39 127 

SPECIAL ACTS— 

Abrogated, how 18 51 

Referred to 33 103 

Referred to 38 123 

Referred to 76 269 

Repeals of 78 276 

SPECIAL CHARTER DISTRICTS— 

Annual reports of 78 276 

Boundaries changed, how 17 48 

Discontinued, how 18 51 

Elections in, when held 38 126 

Funds of, how invested 24 72 

Revenues of 78 276 

SPECIAL CHARTERS— 

Abrogated, how 81 1 

SUFFRAGE, EQUAL— 

Qualifications for 76 270 



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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION— Page. Sec. 

Advice of 10 15 

19 17 

Appeal to *-* y l 

Certificates issued by ° 4 177 

Concurrence of 56 1S1 



Duties of . 
Election of 



Reference to 
Reference to 



Elections in 
Fractional 



5 

5 1 



Funds withheld by 7 4 

Information required by 8 7 

Liability of ^ 26 _° 

May require report 7S 276 

Powers of 6 



11 16 

15 36 

Reference to 15 37 

Reference to 23 70 

Reference to ° 4 17 ° 

Reference to 76 272 

Report of 6 4 

TEACHERS— 

Age of 54 176 

Certificate, when necessary 54 176 

Employment of 54 * ' 6 

Examinations 55 1S0 

Institutes 56 18 J 

Attendance at 5G 183 

Orders, draw interest, when 26 81 

Responsible for property 56 184 

Register, duty to keep 56 185 

Schedules, duty to make 57 186 

"Wages, when due and payable 37 US 

TEXT-BOOKS, SCHOOL— 

For children of indigent parents 35 114 

Prescribed by school director 35 114 



Uniformity of 

TOWNSHIP, SCHOOL— 

Congressional * 



!5 114 



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12 22 



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Referred to 67 225 

TRANSFER, PERMIT OF— 

For pupils 38 121 

Tuition on account of 38 121 

TREASURER, TOWNSHIP— 

Accounts of 23 70 

Bond of 22 68 

Clerk of board of trustees 22 67 

Compensation 23 G9 

Custodian of funds 

Duties of 

Election of 22 

Eligibility of 22 

Liable in Civil Action— 

For failure to perform duties 72 248 

For failure to perform duties 72 249 

For failure to perform duties 73 250 



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TREASURER, TOWNSHIP— Concluded. Page. Sec. 
Liable in Criminal Action — 

For conversion of funds 74 257 

For failure to report statistics 72 248 

For interest in sales 75 260 

For perversion of funds 75 263 

Map, made and filed by 20 5S 

Removal of 22 67 

Resignation of : 27 84 

Statement of, annual 27 82 

Term of office 22 67 

TRUANT OFFICER— 

Appointed, when 77 275 

Duties of 77 275 

TUITION— 

For non-resident pupils 35 115 

For pupils transferred 38 121 

Paid to township treasurer 35 115 

TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS— 

A body politic 12 20 

Accounts of treasurer examined by 15 38 

Adjournment of 19 53 

Appeal from 19 55 

Apportionment of funds 14 35 

Appraisers appointed by ." 22 65 

Clerk appointed by 22 67 

Election of 12 22 

Eligibility 12 21 

Judges of election 13 27 

Liability of 71 244 

Meetings, concurrent . . . '. 17 47 

Semi-annual 14 34 

Special 14 34 

Organization of ; 14 33 

Quorum 14 34 

UNION DISTRICTS— 

Dissolved, how 17 49 

Funds of 35 114 

Funds of 27 83 

VACANCIES IN OFFICE— 

Of county superintendent g4 209 

Of school director 33 

Of township treasurer 2° 



106 
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Of trustee of schools 13 24 

WAGES, TEACHERS— 

Payable monthly 37 n% 

WARRANTS— 

Against and in anticipation of taxes 37 117 

WOMEN— 

Eligible to school offices 75 269 



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